Book I in the Writing and Combining Standard English Sentences series.

Includes bibliographical references (p. vi).

"Written in simple, easy-to-understand language, this book and its companion volume, Sentence Combination: Writing and Combining Standard English Sentences (Book II), are guides to writing and combining sentences generally found in academic situations. The books can be used by intermediate and advanced ESL and SESD students as well as nonforeign students who require a basic grammar review before taking freshman English. Focus is on the sentence, with paragraph construction taught by means of contextually connecte exercises. This volume, Book I, covers the basics of sentence construction, while Book II deals with the many transforming and combining techniques for producing variety in writing." (Book Cover)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

To the Teacher

Chapter 1 WORD TYPES AND FORMS
1. Content and Function Words -- 2. Content Words and Derivational Classes -- 3. Content Words and Inflectional Forms

Chapter 2 NOUNS
1. Types of Nouns -- 2. Nouns and Unit Expressions -- 3. Articles and Nouns (Nonspecifics) -- 4. Articles and Nouns (Specific) -- 5. Expressions of Quantity with a -- 6. Articles and Proper Nouns

Chapter 3 PRONOUNS
1. Purpose of Pronouns -- 2. Pronoun Agreement with Antecedents -- 3. Clarity of Pronoun Antecedents -- 4. Dummy Subjects

Chapter 4 AUX-WORDS
1. Forms of Aux-words -- 2. Subject/Aux-word Agreement (Present Tense) -- 3. Subject/Aux-word Agreement (Past Tense) -- 4. Yes/No Questions and Aux-words -- 5. Hidden Aux-words -- 6. Negatives Aux-words -- 7. 5. Verb/Aux-words Look-Alikes -- 8. Aux-words Modals

Chapter 5 VERBS FORMS AND THEIR USES
1. English Verb Forms -- 2. Present Time-included Forms & Their Uses -- 3. Past Time-included Forms and Their Uses -- 4. Timeless Verb Forms and Their Uses -- 5. Multiple Aux-word/Verb Combinations -- 6. Two-word Verbs -- 7. Separable and Inseparable Two-word Verbs

Chapter 6 VERBS AND TIME
1. Establishing Time -- 2. The Simple Present Tense and Time -- 3. The Simple Past Tense and Time -- 4. The -ing Verb Form and Time -- 5. The Earlier-than-established-time Relationship -- 6. The Later-than-established-time Relationship -- 7. Summary of Time and Tense Relationships -- 8. Later of Earlier Time with -ing Forms -- 9. Modal + Have Combinations

Chapter 7 THE SENTENCE

1. Subject and Predicate -- 2. Simple and Complex Sentences -- 3. Shifters -- 4. Basic Sentence Patterns -- 5. Sentence Pattern Number One -- 6. Sentence Pattern Number Two -- 7. Transitive/Intransitive Verbs -- 8. Sentence Pattern Number Three -- 9. Sentence Pattern Number Four -- 10. Summary of Sentence Patterns -- 11. Wh-Questions

Chapter 8 MODIFIERS
1. The Nucleus of the Noun Phrase -- 2. Order of Noun Modifiers -- 3. Singular and Plural Forms of Modifiers -- 4. The Modifier Very -- 5. Adjective Complement Modifiers -- 6. Verb Forms Used as Modifiers -- 7. Comparative Forms of Adjectives -- 8. Superlative Forms of Adjectives -- 9. Nouns Used as Modifiers -- 10. Phrases and Clauses Used as Modifiers -- 11. Adverbs of Frequency and Probability -- 12. Adverbs of Intensity -- 13. Adverbs of Manner, Place, Time, etc.

Appendix A CONTENT WORDS

Appendix B SOME COMMON NONCOUNT NOUNS AND UNIT EXPRESSIONS

Appendix C IRREGULAR VERB FORMS

Appendix D. SOME COMMON TWO-WORD VERBS