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Grammar Made Easy - The Unorthodox Subject – Verb – Object Methodology of Sentence Structure. A One Hour Crash Course!
For the past eight years I have tutored and taught college-level students grammar and writing. After writing a One Hour Crash Course in Essay Writing, I decided to share a grammar guide that gets at what 95% of my students really need, what 95% of my students get wrong when they are getting just about everything else right. I won’t fiddle with the basics, this is straight to the tough stuff, but I am confident that after one hour, after these 5000 words, you will be well prepared to become self directed in your continuing goal of becoming a better writer.
This book is intended for “advanced” students of grammar. That is, people with a basic comprehension of the elements of the English language, or what are also known as “parts of speech.” Here is a quick test to find out if it is right for you. The meaning and some examples of all of these terms should be familiar to you so
Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Adjective, Capitalization, Punctuation, Preposition, Plural, Possessive, Conjunction, Tense, and Subject/Verb Agreement.
And yet, these terms will be either a bit unfamiliar or simply boggle your
Phrase, Clause, Subject, Predicate, Object, Parallelism, Dangling Modifier, Interjection, Gerund, Conditional, Comma Splice, Serial Comma, Passive Voice, Appositive.
If you are having trouble with the first list, I recommend catching up on their meaning thoroughly before proceeding with this manual. If you know this first list rather well, but not the second, well, the good news is that we are going to throw out many of these terms as they are redundant, unnecessarily complex, and often invented by Grammar Book companies to make things more complicated than they already are, and we just don’t need them for this one-hour crash course.
This book is intended for “advanced” students of grammar. That is, people with a basic comprehension of the elements of the English language, or what are also known as “parts of speech.” Here is a quick test to find out if it is right for you. The meaning and some examples of all of these terms should be familiar to you so
Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Adjective, Capitalization, Punctuation, Preposition, Plural, Possessive, Conjunction, Tense, and Subject/Verb Agreement.
And yet, these terms will be either a bit unfamiliar or simply boggle your
Phrase, Clause, Subject, Predicate, Object, Parallelism, Dangling Modifier, Interjection, Gerund, Conditional, Comma Splice, Serial Comma, Passive Voice, Appositive.
If you are having trouble with the first list, I recommend catching up on their meaning thoroughly before proceeding with this manual. If you know this first list rather well, but not the second, well, the good news is that we are going to throw out many of these terms as they are redundant, unnecessarily complex, and often invented by Grammar Book companies to make things more complicated than they already are, and we just don’t need them for this one-hour crash course.
28 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 22, 2011
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