Understanding Sentences | |
Introduction: The Conventions of Language | |
Sentence Patterns and Conventions | |
Subject and Predicate, Noun and Verb | |
Articles and Other Modifiers | |
Sentence Pattern 1: subject + verb | |
Sentence Pattern 2A: subject + verb + direct object | |
Sentence Pattern 2B: passive voice | |
Sentence Pattern 3: subject + verb + indirect object + direct object | |
Sentence Pattern 4A: subject + linking verb + subjective complement (predicate adjective) | |
Sentence Pattern 4B: subject + linking verb + subjective complement (predicate noun) | |
Sentence Pattern 5A: subject + verb + direct object + objective complement (adjective) | |
Sentence Pattern 5B: subject + verb + direct object + objective complement (noun) | |
Sentence Pattern 6: expletive | |
Other Elements: Structure Words | |
Independent (Main) Clauses | |
Subordinate (Dependent) Clauses | |
Functions of Subordinate Clauses | |
Phrases | |
Appositives | |
Absolute Phrases | |
Order of Elements in Declarative Sentences | |
Order of Elements in Interrogative Sentences | |
The Structure of Imperative Sentences | |
What is a Sentence? | |
Major Sentences | |
Minor Sentences | |
Fragments | |
Kinds of Major Sentences | |
Parts of Speech | |
Introduction: The Parts of Speech and How they Work in Sentences | |
Nouns | |
Inflection of Nouns | |
Grammatical Function of Nouns | |
Pronouns | |
Personal Pronouns | |
Impersonal Pronouns | |
Inbterrogative Pronouns | |
Relative Pronouns | |
Case | |
Demonstrative Pronouns | |
Indefinite Pronouns | |
Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns | |
Reciprocal Pronouns | |
Agreement of Pronouns with Their Antecendents | |
Antecendents Joined by and | |
Antecendents Joined by or or nor | |
Indefinite Pronoun as Antecedent | |
Pronouns and Inclusive Language | |
Collective Noun as Antecendent | |
Agreement with Demonstrative Adjectives | |
Reference of Pronouns | |
Remote Antecedent | |
Ambiguous Reference | |
Vague Reference | |
Missing Antecedent | |
Indefinite you, they, and it | |
Verbs | |
Kinds of Verbs: Transitive, Intransitive, and Linking | |
Inflection of Verbs: Principal Parts | |
Irregular Verbs | |
Inflection for Person and Number | |
Auxillary Verbs | |
Inlection of do, be, and have | |
Time and the Verb: Inflection for Tense | |
The Functions of the Different Tenses | |
Sequence of Tenses | |
Verb Phrases in Compound Predicates | |
Tenses in Writing about Literature | |
Mood | |
Using the Subjunctive | |
Using Modal Auxillaries and Infinitives Instead of Subjectives | |
Voice | |
The Passive Voice | |
Agreement Between Subject and Verb | |
Something Intervening Between Subject and Verb | |
Compound Subject: Singular Nouns Joined by and | |
Compound Subject: Parts Joined by or or a Correlative | |
Agreement with Indefinite Pronouns | |
Subject Following Verb | |
Agreement with Collective Nouns | |
Nouns That Are Always Singular or Always Plural | |
Plurals: criteria, datea, media, etc | |
Agreement with Relative Pronouns | |
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