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Author:   Cindy L. Vitto
Publisher:   Broadview Press Ltd
Imprint:   Broadview Press Ltd
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Weight:   0.171kg
ISBN:  

9781554814541

ISBN 10:   1554814545
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   30 August 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: Preliminaries Chapter 2: Building a Sentence with Noun/Pronoun and Verb Chapter 3: Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections Chapter 4: Basic Sentence Patterns for Be and Linking Verbs Chapter 5: Basic Sentence Patterns for Intransitive and Transitive Verbs Check Your Progress: Chapters 1–5 Chapter 6: Combining and Expanding Patterns Compound Structures Chapter 7: Combining and Expanding Patterns: Complex Sentences with Adverb and Relative Clauses Chapter 8: Complex Sentences with Noun Clauses Chapter 9: Verbals Chapter 10: Crafting Better Sentences Check Your Progress: Chapters 6–10 Chapter 11: Verbs Chapter 12: Pronouns Chapter 13: Usage Problems Associated with Adjectives and Adverbs Chapter 14: Punctuation and Capitalization Answer Key

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Grammar for English majors is as important as mathematics for physics majors; it is the invisible structure that determines how language works. Unlike math, however, almost everyone learns to speak a language well without studying it in school. Grammar is unconscious logical structure we know without knowing it. Cindy Vitto's Grammar by Diagram makes it conscious and comprehensible and will improve students' writing and analytical skills, no matter their majors. -- Gordon Sayre, University of Oregon Priase for the second edition: Rejoice! After years of neglect, sentence diagraming can unapologetically return to college courses. Cindy Vitto's Grammar by Diagram makes this a fruitful return by using diagraming first to lay bare the structural bones of English and then to demonstrate ways in which writers use these components to create effective sentences. Through diagraming, students see that a strong sentence is a purposefully structured unit and not a set of words aimlessly strung together. Thus Grammar by Diagram gives students not only skills for crafting better sentences but also tools for examining language with greater care. -- Candace Barrington, Central Connecticut State University Grammar by Diagram is a dream come true for me. I grew up academically on diagraming, and I have always thought it is one of the best ways for students to visualize the structure of the language. -- George Edward Stanley, Cameron University

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Cindy L. Vitto is Professor Emerita of English at Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey.

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