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Essentials of Grammar: A Textbook for Teachers, Editors, Secretaries, Writers, and Other Semiwilling Curmudgeons
Second Edition (for Face-to-Face and Online Students)
by Jeff Glauner
Note: This grammar textbook is a work in progress. If I live long enough, this grammar textbook will probably be a work in progress for the rest of my life. Feel free to use it in any way that is helpful to you or your students. It is my attempt to present a systematic grammar to teacher candidates who have only one semester to learn it before entering their own classrooms to teach it. It is succinct, and it is free: two qualities my students applaud.
Park University
Parkville, Missouri
First Published, January 2000
Second Edition, December 2002
Unit I
Bibliography
Introduction
Chapter 1
A - An Overview of
Descriptive Linguistics.
B - An Overview of the
History and Demise of Grammatical Discourse in Schools and Other
Places of Learning.
Chapter 2 – Sentences and Nonsentences.
Chapter 3 – A List of Grammatical Terms.
Chapter 4 – Sentence Constituents.
Unit II
Chapter 5 – Normal Sentence Order and Introduction to
Basic Sentence Patterns.
Chapter 6 - Pattern 1: Intransitive Verb.
Chapter 7 - Pattern 2: Direct Object.
Chapter 8 - Pattern 3: Indirect Object.
Unit III
Chapter 9 - Pattern 4: Subject Complement (Adj).
Chapter 10 - Pattern 5: Subject Complement (Nom).
Chapter 11 - Pattern 6: Object Complement (Adj).
Chapter 12 - Pattern 7: Object Complement (Nom).
Unit IV
Chapter 13 – Phrases as Constituents.
Chapter 14 - Modification in Basic Sentence Patterns.
Unit V
Chapter 15 - Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences.
Chapter 16 – Subordinate Clauses.
Unit VI
Chapter 17 – Coordination of Phrases and
Clauses.
Chapter 18 - Elaboration of the Auxiliary.
Unit VII
Chapter 19 – Transformations.
Chapter 20 - Parts of Speech (Form and Function).
Spring 2000 Assessments
Spring 2001 Assessments
Fall 2001 Assessments
Spring 2002 Assessments