English Sentence Structure (Intensive Course in English Series)

Description
Part of the classic Michigan Rainbow series.
English Sentence Structure presents and clarifies all facets of the sentence for beginning and intermediate students. Oral drills, examples, and written exercises form a pattern of regular review and self-evaluation. Each lesson is coordinated with English Pattern Practices.

English Structure Practices

This workbook, which may be used independently or in conjunction with English Sentence Structure, contains more than 400 exercises that cover beginning- and intermediate-level grammar points such as tenses, articles, count and noncount nouns, modals, verbals, relative clauses, passive voice, adverbs, and conditional sentences.
This is the workbook to accompany English Sentence Structure.

Review By Molly Vargas "mollyjean1120" (Baja California Sur, Mexico)
I have given this book away to different school's where I have taught in Minnesota, and in Mexico (Chiapas, San Luis Potosi). Now I find myself teaching again, and I need it! I'm ordering another copy from Amazon.com!

This book gives ESL/EFL students the repetition they need, and it makes it so simple, that they don't mind the work! It is page after page of photocopiable worksheets that start from zero--the verb "to be" and goes on to advanced.

You can use it for extra practice specific area for a student who needs it, or for everyday class worksheets, quizzes, homework, or games (I put one item up at a time, and see who comes up with the correct answer first)...

After I know my students understand a concept I make sure they can put it into practice in many different ways. This book is the easiest way I've found to do that. English Structure Practices has all the bases covered...including exceptions to rules that I may not have remembered.

It's VERY THOROUGH! And that's how my students want to learn and I want to teach; thoroughly!

Discovering Grammar: An Introduction to English Sentence Structure

Description
This introduction to basic sentence structure encourages readers to explore grammar through critical thinking and analysis of a variety of different texts including excerpts from poetry, novels, television, movies, and more. Part One provides an
overview of different definitions of and approaches to grammar, outlining the approach to descriptive grammar taken in the text. Part Two introduces each syntactic category and highlights the basic division between lexical and grammatical categories. Part Three focuses on the structure of sentences. The book incorporates several types of exercises including "discovery problems," text analysis, and language diversity exercises.

Prepositional Phrase as Post Modifier of Noun Phrase

A Prepositional Phrase is a phrase which begins with a preposition. The examples of prepositions are in, on, at , for, of, with, by, to, above, under, near, and witout. The prepositional phrase consists of a preposition plus a noun or a noun phrase. The examples of prepositional phrases are at home, in the house, to campus, with my friend near the post office and for my wife.

The following are the examples of prepositional phrases as Post modifiers of noun phrases.

A Post Modifier of a noun phrase is a modifier which comes after a noun head in a noun phrase. Look at the rxamples below:

- the man in my house
- the students of the university
- the people at home
- the house near the post office

Because and Because of

Because is a conjunction and is used with a clause. Because of is a preposition and it is used with a noun or a noun phrase. Look at the examples below:

I did not come to the meeting because it rained. (it rained is a clause)
I did not come to the meeting because of the rain. (the rain is a noun phrase)