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Grammar and
Punctuation
Visual Guide to
Contents
Written by
Sheila Dignen
Senior editor
Marie Greenwood
US Editor
Rebecca Warren
US Consultant
Anne Flounders
US Senior editor
Shannon Beatty
Art editors
Shipra Jain, Seepiya Sahni
Assistant editor
Anwesha Dutta
DTP designer
Bimlesh Tiwary,
Nityanand Kumar
Jacket coordinator
Francesca Young
Jacket editor
Ishani Nandi
Jacket designers
Amy Keast,
Dheeraj Arora
Managing editors
Laura Gilbert,
Alka Thakur Hazarika
Managing art editors
Diane Peyton Jones,
Romi Chakraborty
CTS manager
Balwant Singh
Production manager
Pankaj Sharma
Picture researcher
Sakshi Saluja
Pre-production producer
Dragana Puvacic
Producer
Isabell Schart
Art director
Martin Wilson
Publisher
Sarah Larter
Publishing director
Sophie Mitchell
Introduction
How to use this book
What is grammar?
What is punctuation?
Parts of speech
Nouns
Proper nouns
Abstract nouns
Singular and plural nouns
Compound nouns
Collective nouns
Verbs
Verbs and subjects
Subjects and objects
The verb be
Pronouns
I or me?
Possessive pronouns
Present and past tenses
Future tense
Progressive tenses
Perfect tenses
Auxiliary verbs
Infinitives
Adjectives
Where to put adjectives
Adverbs
Adjectives into adverbs
Adverbs of place
Adverbs of time
Adverbs before adjectives
Comparatives and superlatives
Prepositions
Prepositions of place
Prepositions of time
Other prepositions
Conjunctions
Coordinating conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions
Interjections
Determiners
Parts of speech quiz
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ISBN: 978-1-4654-6258-9
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a small white dog
with a flowing cape
Sentences, phrases, and clauses
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Sentences
Statements
Questions
Exclamations
Commands
Noun phrases
Prepositional phrases
Adverbials
Fronted adverbials
Clauses
Main clauses
Subordinate clauses
Relative clauses
Relative pronouns
Active and passive sentences
Direct speech
Reported speech
Direct to reported speech
Sentences quiz
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Punctuation
Capital letters
Periods
Question marks
Exclamation points
Commas
Apostrophes
Possessive apostrophes
Its or it’s
Parentheses
Quotation marks
Dashes
Hyphens
Colons
Semicolons
Ellipses
Bullet points
Punctuation quiz
Writing tips
Common mistakes in grammar
Common mistakes in punctuation
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments
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Elephants are
amazingly
strong.
The balloon
was going
higher and higher.
Introduction
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When you learn
about the grammar of your
own language, the most
clauses
important thing to remember is
that you already know most of it.
ellipses
Every time you open your
mouth to speak, you are
using grammar without
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even realizing it!
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future tense
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You talk about what you
did yesterday and what you’re
going to do tomorrow; you talk
about one friend, two friends
or your brother’s friends;
you talk about exciting films,
more exciting films and
the most exciting film
you’ve ever seen ...
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exclamations
hyphens
capital
colons

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