The Word Wizard explains that adverbs answer the How? When? and Why? questions in our world. Clearly written text and photographs cast their spell on readers so they understand how adverbs work with other parts of speech, the functions of adverbs, and how to identify adverbs in sentences. Fun, inspired activities encourage readers to use adverbs to add detail and excitement when speaking and writing.
Syntax puts our meaning (“semantics”) into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must, surely, be a structure in the meaning that is expressed in the syntax and phonology. Some writers use the phrase “semantic structure”, but are referring to conceptual structure; since we can express our conceptual thought in many different linguistic ways, we cannot equate conceptual and semantic structures.
Grammar for Sentence Combining: Underpinning Knowledge for Adult Literacy Practitioners
This clearly written and accessible guide outlines the principles of sentence combining: the technique for expanding sentence structure by creating compound and complex sentences from simple sentences.
The book covers an effective grammar teaching strategy demonstrated to improve the quality of learners' writing and relates concepts to practical teaching strategies. It is a user-friendly accessible resource for teachers to use for their continuing professional development and to support classroom practice. It is a recommended text for adult literacy training courses, and for general degree-level language and literacy courses as an introduction to the subject.
A Cure for the Common Word provides more than thirty alternatives for each of the one hundred most commonly overused words in the English language. Along with a list of synonyms, each common word comes with definitions, sample sentences, witty quotes, explanations of why the word fails to communicate, and much more. Search 'A Cure for the Common Word' to see 100 entries.
Do your sentences run longer than a page? Or do they hang in the air, waiting for a subject, an object or some punctuation to finish them off? This easy-to-use guide to sentence writing not only teaches you how to overcome run-ons and sentence fragments, but also all of the sentence construction obstacles encountered by anyone who needs to master (or re-master) the English language-all without making you do a single dreaded diagram! You'll learn a sentence-combining approach to writing that goes beyond helping you avoid errors by teaching you how to create sound sentences with variety and style.
