Nitty Gritty Grammar Student's Book: Sentence Essentials for Writers

A. Robert Young, Ann O. Strauch

Cambridge University Press, Mar 20, 2006 - Foreign Language Study - 284 pages

Nitty Gritty Grammar, Second Edition, focuses on essential areas of English grammar that cause difficulty for developing writers. Nitty Gritty Grammar, Second Edition focuses on essential areas of English grammar that cause difficulty for developing writers. It guides students through the learning process by exploring grammar in context, providing controlled practice, and giving students thought-provoking writing assignments in which they can practice grammar in a more open-ended format. The grammar points are illustrated in reading passages from a variety of genres, from comic strips to the 9/11 Commission Report. Nitty Gritty Grammar boxes summarize key grammar points and serve as easy reference. Five review sections are included for review and consolidation.

Contents

• Subjects: 1
• Irregular past tense verbs: 2
• Negatives in the simple past: 3
• Actions completed in the past: 4
• Time markers for the simple past: 5
• The Past Progressive 6 The form of the past progressive: 6
• The past progressive vs the simple past: 7
• Stative verbs: 8
• Sentence Essentials: 15
• Simple Compound and Complex Sentences: 16
• Complex Sentences: 23
• RunOn Sentences and Sentence Fragments: 31
• RunOn Sentences and Sentence Fragments: 32
• Review: 47
• Count Nouns: 51
• Writing Assignments 1 A special celebration: 58
• Articles: 67
• Review: 84
• A public event: 88
• The Simple Past and the Past Progressive: 105
• The Present Perfect and the Present Perfect Progressive: 123
• The form of the present perfect: 124
• Irregular verbs in the present perfect tense: 125
• The present perfect for unspecified past time 4 Frequency adverbs with the present perfect: 128
• The present perfect for past to present time and possibly the future: 129
• For and since with the present perfect: 130
• The Present Perfect Progressive: 131
• The form of the present perfect progressive: 132
• Stative verbs 9 The present perfect progressive for emphasizing duration Chapter 9 The Future Part 1 The Future: 134
• The Future: 141
• Forms of the future with be going to and will: 142
• The form of future time clauses: 143
• Predictions with be going to and will: 145
• Plans and intentions with be going to and the present progressive: 146
• Scheduled and planned events with the simple present and the present progressive: 147
• Future forms in longer passages: 148
• Future in the Past 7 Meaning: 149
• Review: 156
• Form: 164
• Conditionals: 181
• Hope and Wish 195: 210
• Word Forms: 227
• Writing Assignments 1 A disagreement 2 A separation 3 An annoyance Writing Assignments 1 A road trip 2 A planned: 243
• Final Dos and Donts 247: 268
• Common Irregular Verbs: 274

Bibliographic information

• Title: Nitty Gritty Grammar Student's Book: Sentence Essentials for Writers
• Authors: A. Robert Young, Ann O. Strauch
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0521606543, 9780521606547
• Length: 284 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General