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Textbook on grammar and composition for religious schools.
The Grammar and Language Workbook offers sequential language instruction along with extensive drill and practice in grammar, usage, and mechanics. This important tool includes a handbook as well as vocabulary, spelling, and composition lessons.
Positive, practical techniques for achieving a more professional writing style. Here are the "how to" keys of writing--from putting the first words on paper to the final polishing and proofreading. Readers will learn how to edit their writing for improved clarity, cut excess words, use transitional phrases, recognize and correct run-on sentences and overcome procrastination and impulsive writing. Readers will learn how to: * Identify the key components of any well-written business document * Cut excess words and phrases from your writing * Use transitional words and phrases * Avoid misplaced and dangling modifiers and split infinitives * Use commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, and parentheses * Use slash marks, ellipsis marks, quotation marks, italics, and brackets * Recognize and correct run-on sentences * Proofread your writing for clarity of meaning * Overcome the two common writing problems that waste time and money--procrastination and impulsive writing
Teach grammar and punctuation skills sequentially with Grammar and Punctuation series. This book includes 25 rule charts followed by three activity sheets for practicing the rule.
Welcome to a language arts program created for easy reading and instruction. Behind this program is a team of dedicated teachers who care about your success and want to present incremental teaching material in a simple format. This program consists of a series of daily lessons, review sets, and tests that are carefully sequenced to develop a variety of skills and concepts. We include lessons on capitalization, punctuation, parts of speech, sentence structure, spelling rules, and correct word usage, all with a focus on improving your writing.
Clearly composed for students as they learn grammar and composition they study the essentials and rules of English in writing, speaking and reading.
Improving your grammar will help you deliver polished and professional written communications. Correct grammar and a refined, concise writing style can help you clearly articulate your ideas to others, streamline the directions and instructions that you deliver, and create impressive presentations and reports.
Grammar for Middle School: A Sentence-Composing Approach gives your students the chance to absorb and replicate the grammatical structures used by some of the best writers of our times.
Good grammar is essential for effective communication. Yet many of us are plagued by the same nagging question: If I'm so smart why does grammar make me feel so dumb? Grammar For Smart People can help. Here at last, is a lively, user-friendly guide that zeroes in on the areas that give everyone the most trouble, and it does it with an advantage most grammar books lack - a light touch. You won't feel as though you're back in the fifth grade, diagramming sentences and struggling with a grammar textbook filled with dull, unbreakable rules.
* Provides instruction and practice in key Common Core writing genres Supplies lessons for writing narrative, argumentative, and informational responses.<P> * Promotes learning with student-friendly lessons that include succinct explanations, clear examples, and numerous opportunities for practice Builds mastery of grammar, usage, and mechanics skills with rich practice in the context of students' own writing.<P> * Applies grammar and writing skills to real-life writing tasks.<P> * Increases in difficulty, sophistication, and rigor with more lessons, grammar content, and writing expectations grade by grade.<P> * Consistently focuses on the six writing traits.<P> * Is divided into two parts: Part I addresses core writing skills and the writing process and Part II focuses on teaching grammar, usage, and mechanics skills and strategies.
* Provides instruction and practice in key Common Core writing genres. Supplies lessons for writing narrative, argumentative, and informational responses.<P> * Promotes learning with student-friendly lessons that include succinct explanations, clear examples, and numerous opportunities for practice. Builds mastery of grammar, usage, and mechanics skills with rich practice in the context of students' own writing.<P> * Applies grammar and writing skills to real-life writing tasks Increases in difficulty, sophistication, and rigor with more lessons, grammar content, and writing expectations grade by grade.<P> * Consistently focuses on the six writing traits.<P> * Is divided into two parts: Part I addresses core writing skills and the writing process and Part II focuses on teaching grammar, usage, and mechanics skills and strategies.
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Designed with today's students in mind. Grammar rules are presented & explained in a clear & simple manner, so that students can grasp them quickly & apply them to their writing. The teacher's edition presents ideas & prompts for students' writing, includes strategies for effective grammar instruction, provides assessment rubrics for evaluating students' writing, supplies checklists for revising, editing & proofreading & provides answers on the page & in the Answer Key.
Grammar for Writing presents the rules of grammar as simply as possible; whether you are merely refreshing your memory or learning the concepts for the first time, you'll be able to understand the rules and apply them to your writing.
Grammar for Writing teaches composition and grammar in an effective and appealing way.
As a student, you are constantly being challenged to write correctly and effectively in a variety of subjects. From homework to standardized tests, more and more assignments require that you write in a clear, correct, and interesting way. Grammar for Writing teaches composition and grammar in an effective and appealing way. The first half of the book focuses on Composition and tells you about the important traits of good writing. In this section, you'll learn how to write correct and effective sentences, choose the best words to get your message across, and write strong paragraphs and essays. The second half of the book presents Grammar lessons in a way that is entertaining and easy to understand. You'll learn how grammar is used in everyday writing and how grammar mistakes can lead to funny misinterpretations that you'll want to avoid. Also, every chapter in the book contains a Writing Workshop that shows you how to craft different types of writing, such as stories and how to essays. Writing and grammar are subjects that you use every day. Whether you are writing a paper for class or e-mailing your friend about your weekend, you can express yourself best if you know how to write effectively. Grammar for Writing will help you do that. This program was created with you in mind, and it includes topics that will inspire you and spark your curiosity. While no textbook can make writing easy, Grammar for Writing breaks down the essential steps of writing in a way that makes sense. Throughout the book, there is a Write What You Think feature that helps you develop clear arguments and sharpen your thinking skills. There are also Literary Models that draw examples from popular literature. Exercises are interesting and easy to understand. If you need help, Hint features point you in the right direction and ensure that you get the most out of the practice. The point of Grammar for Writing is to sharpen the way you speak and write. By explaining grammar rules and writing techniques in a simple way, this book will help you become a better writer.
Ideal for students preparing for the TOEFL r test or other standard examinations, the new edition of this popular North American English grammar title offers even more support, with a larger format to include more explanation and practice, eight new units on phrasal verbs, and 10 pages of Additional Exercises. The book is available with and without a CD-ROM, which includes additional practice exercises, progress reports, interactive games, and a link to the Cambridge Dictionaries Online. You can even create your own tests to review the language learned. The workbook provides students with further practice opportunities.
This is the first full-length reference grammar of Mam, a Mayan language spoken today by over 400,000 people in the western highlands of Guatemala and the state of Chiapas, Mexico. The result of over three years of extensive fieldwork in Guatemala, A Grammar of Mam, a Mayan Language is based on the dialect of Mam spoken by 12,000 people in San Ildefonso Ixtahuacan in the department of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. England organizes A Grammar of Mam according to two complementary principles: to analyze Mam following basically traditional levels of grammatical description and to present material in such a way that the background information necessary for understanding each topic of discussion shall have been previously provided. Accordingly, England's analysis of the sound system and morphophonemic processes of Mam is followed by a description of the characteristics of root, inflectional, and derivational morphology. Chapters on phrase structure precede two chapters on sentence-level syntax. A Grammar of Mam is of particular interest in analyzing a Mayan language that is both syntactically and morphologically ergative and that is innovative in the direction of strengthening the ergative system. Indeed at all levels of linguistic organization Mam is innovative, and for this reason it is uniquely interesting both historically and theoretically.
Many languages include constructions which are sensitive to the expression of polarity: that is, negative polarity items, which cannot occur in affirmative clauses, and positive polarity items, which cannot occur in negatives. The phenomenon of polarity sensitivity has been an important source of evidence for theories about the mental architecture of grammar over the last fifty years, and to many the oddly dysfunctional sensitivities of polarity items have seemed to support a view of grammar as an encapsulated mental module fundamentally unrelated to other aspects of human cognition or communicative behavior. This book draws on insights from cognitive/functional linguistics and formal semantics to argue that, on the contrary, the grammar of sensitivity is grounded in a very general human cognitive ability to form categories and draw inferences based on scalar alternatives, and in the ways this ability is deployed for rhetorical effects in ordinary interpersonal communication.
In The Grammar of Society, first published in 2006, Cristina Bicchieri examines social norms, such as fairness, cooperation, and reciprocity, in an effort to understand their nature and dynamics, the expectations that they generate, and how they evolve and change. Drawing on several intellectual traditions and methods, including those of social psychology, experimental economics and evolutionary game theory, Bicchieri provides an integrated account of how social norms emerge, why and when we follow them, and the situations where we are most likely to focus on relevant norms. Examining the existence and survival of inefficient norms, she demonstrates how norms evolve in ways that depend upon the psychological dispositions of the individual and how such dispositions may impair social efficiency. By contrast, she also shows how certain psychological propensities may naturally lead individuals to evolve fairness norms that closely resemble those we follow in most modern societies.
Tell effective visual stories by utilizing the "grammar" of film and video with this elegant, modular reference. See what you absolutely need to know to put together your own film or video, shot by shot. Whether you're just learning how to frame a shot or simply looking for a refresher, Grammar of the Shot gives you a toolkit to help you build a successful visual story that flows smoothly. Understand the basic building blocks essential for successful shot lighting, screen direction, 3D elements, camera movement, and many general practices that make for richer, multi-layered visuals. Expand your visual vocabulary and help jumpstart your career in film and video. Get ample examples and further instruction on the new companion website.Designed as an easy-to-use reference, Grammar of the Shot presents each topic succinctly with clear photographs and diagrams illustrating the key concepts. Simple and easy to use, Grammar of the Shot is a staple of any filmmaker's library.
First published in 1988, Grammar Practice Activities is a language teaching classic. This revised version combines tried and tested activities with up-to-date content including a CD-ROM. This is an invaluable resource for any teacher who wishes to combine grammar teaching with a broadly communicative methodology. The book contains a collection of imaginative and interesting grammar practice activities suitable for a wide range of levels and ages. Clear teaching notes accompany each activity ensuring they are easy to use.