Practical Grammar and Composit

Practical Grammar and Composition by Thomas Wood

Full of grammar drills and grammar challenge on end of chapters

May include older English dialects

Most of the exercises are edited only partly, but it is fairly straight forward to follow

Full content:

I.— Sentences—Parts of Speech—Elements of Sentence—Phrases and Clauses

II.— Nouns

Common and Proper

Inflection Defined

Number

The Formation of Plurals

Compound Nouns

Case

The Formation of the Possessive Case

Gender

III.— Pronouns

Agreement with Antecedents

Person

Gender

Rules Governing Gender

Number

Compound Antecedents

Relative

Interrogative

Case Forms

Rules Governing Use of Cases Compound Personal

Compound Relative

Adjective

Miscellaneous Cautions

IV.— Adjectives and Adverbs

Comparison

Confusion of Adjectives and Adverbs

Improper Forms of Adjectives

Errors in Comparison

Singular and Plural Adjectives

Placing of Adverbs and Adjectives

Double Negatives

The Articles

V.— Verbs

Principal Parts

Name-form

Past Tense

Past Participle

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

Active and Passive Voice

Mode

Forms of the Subjunctive

Use of Indicative and Subjunctive

Agreement of Verb with its Subject

Rules Governing Agreement of the Verb

Miscellaneous Cautions

Use of Shall and Will

Use of Should and Would

Use of May and Might, Can and Could

Participles and Gerunds

Misuses of Participles and Gerunds

Infinitives

Sequence of Infinitive Tenses

Split Infinitives

Agreement of Verb in Clauses

Omission of Verb or Parts of Verb

Model Conjugations

To Be

To See

VI.— Connectives: Relative Pronouns, Relative Adverbs, Conjunctions, and Prepositions

Independent and Dependent Clauses

Case and Number of Relative and Interrogative Pronouns

Conjunctive or Relative Adverbs

Conjunctions

Placing of Correlatives

Prepositions

Questions for the Review of Grammar

A General Exercise on Grammar

VII.— Sentences

Loose

Periodic

Balanced

Sentence Length

The Essential Qualities of a Sentence

Unity

Coherence

Emphasis

Euphony

VIII.— Capitalization and Punctuation

Rules for Capitalization

Rules for Punctuation

IX.— The Paragraph

Length

Paragraphing of Speech

Indentation of the Paragraph

Essential Qualities of the Paragraph

Unity

Coherence

Emphasis

X.— Letter-Writing

Heading

Inside Address

Salutation

Body of the Letter

Close

Miscellaneous Directions

Outside Address

Correctly Written Letters

Notes in the Third Person

XI.— The Whole Composition

Statement of Subject

The Outline

The Beginning

Essential Qualities of the Whole Composition

Unity

Coherence

The Ending

Illustrative Examples

Lincoln's Gettysburgx Speech

Selection from Cranford

List of Books for Reading

XII.— Words—Spelling—Pronunciation

Words

Good Use

Offenses Against Good Use

Solecisms

Barbarisms

Improprieties

Idioms

Choice of Words

How to Improve One's Vocabulary

Spelling

Pronunciation

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