In this section, you will learn how to apply good grammatical sentences in your writing. The discussion covers the followings:
Understanding Sentence Grammar:
a. Understanding the basic sentence
b. Expanding the basic sentence with single words
c. Expanding the basic sentence with words groups
d. Compounding words, phrases, and clauses
e. Changing the usual order of the sentence
f. Classifying sentences
Case of Nouns and Pronouns:
a. Compound subjects and complements
b. Compound objects
c. "We" and "Us" with a noun
d. Appositives
e. Pronoun after "than" or "as" in a comparison
f. Subjects and objects of infinitives
g. Case of "who"
h. Case before a gerund
Verb Forms, Tense, Mood, and Voice:
1. Verb Forms
a. Irregular verbs
b. "sit" and "set"; "lie" and "lay"
c. The -s and -ed forms
2. Tense
a. Present tense and perfect tenses
b. Sequence of tenses
3. Mood
a. Subjunctive verb forms
4. Voice
Agreement
a. Agreement between subject and verb
b. Agreement between pronoun and antecedent
Adjectives and Adverbs
a. Misuse of adjectives
b. Adjective after linking verbs to modify subjects
c. Adjective to modify objects
d. Short forms and -ly forms of adverbs
e. Comparative and superlative forms
f. Overuse of nouns as modifiers
