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9780826498076

The Grammar Detective Solving the Mysteries of Basic Grammar

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  • ISBN13:

    9780826498076

  • ISBN10:

    0826498078

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-06-01
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

The Grammar Detective invites readers to get to grips with English grammar by solving a series of three short murder mysteries, accompanied by several whimsical illustrations. The book introduces aspects of grammar such as nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectiv

Table of Contents

A Note to the Reader I. Parts of Speech 1. Nouns (The Mystery in the Hall of Mirrors) 2. Verbs (The Mystery in the Ghost Tunnel) 3. Adjectives & Adverbs (The Mystery at the Carousel) 4. Determiners 5. Pronouns 6. Prepositions II. The Sentence 7. Subjects and Predicates 8. Clauses 9. Conjunctions 10. Sentence Forms 11. Sentence Types: Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory 12. Phrases 13. Interjections III. Punctuation 14. Commas 15. Quotation Marks 16. Full Stops/ Periods 17. Semicolons 18. Apostrophes 19. Question Marks 20. Exclamation Marks/Exclamation Points 21. Colons
22. Dashes 23. Round Brackets/ Parentheses 24. Square Brackets/ Brackets 25. Obliques (Dashes) / Diagonals (Dashes) 26. Ellipses 27. Emoticons 28. Usage 29. Word Sense 30. Homophones 31. British and American Spelling 32. Idioms Glossary of Terms for Grammar Glossary of Terms for Literary Criticism Glossary of Terms for ReasoningSuggested Reading Index Solutions

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