The grammar cracker : unlocking English grammar / [produced by] Vocalis Ltd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vocalis Ltd.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games.

English language--Grammar--Software.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (136 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Cambridge, England] : Vocalis, Ltd., c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presents the rules of English grammar, including word origins, parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, and writing styles.

Contents:

""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""LETTERS""; ""Alphabet""; ""Vowels""; ""Consonants""; ""Pronunciation""; ""Spelling""; ""Spelling suggestions""; ""American vs. British spelling""; ""Capitalization""; ""Shortcuts""; ""Initials""; ""Acronyms""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Short forms""; ""Excercises""; ""PARTS OF A WORD""; ""Word analysis""; ""Prefixes""; ""Roots""; ""Suffixes""; ""Syllables""; ""Word division""; ""Stress""; ""Exercises""; ""WORDS""; ""Etymology""; ""Word origins""; ""History""; ""Modern words""; ""Parts of Speech""; ""Nouns""; ""Pronouns""; ""Adjectives""; ""Verbs""

""Adverbs""""Prepositions""; ""Conjunctions""; ""Interjections""; ""Related words""; ""Synonyms""; ""Antonyms""; ""Homonyms""; ""Homographs""; ""Confusing ""sound-alikes""""; ""Exercises""; ""ALMOST A SENTENCE""; ""Phrases""; ""Appositive""; ""Prepositional""; ""Verbal""; ""Dangling modifiers""; ""Clauses""; ""Independent""; ""Subordinate""; ""Figures of Speech""; ""Alliteration""; ""Allusion""; ""Analogy""; ""Circumlocution""; ""Climax""; ""Colloquialism""; ""Euphemism""; ""Hyperbole""; ""Idiom""; ""Irony""; ""Jargon""; ""Litotes""; ""Metaphor""; ""Metonymy""; ""Onomatopoeia""; ""Oxymoron""

""Parallelism""""Personification""; ""Simile""; ""Slang""; ""Exercises""; ""PARTS OF A SENTENCE""; ""Sentence elements""; ""Subject""; ""Predicate""; ""Complement""; ""Diagramming""; ""Exercises""; ""SENTENCES""; ""Sentence classifications""; ""Simple""; ""Compound""; ""Complex""; ""Compound-complex""; ""Types of sentences""; ""Declarative""; ""Interrogative""; ""Imperative""; ""Exclamatory""; ""Punctuation""; ""Apostrophe""; ""Brakets""; ""Colon""; ""Comma""; ""Dash""; ""Ellipsis marks""; ""Exclamation point""; ""Highlighting / Italics / Underlining""; ""Hyphen""; ""Parentheses""; ""Period""

""Question mark""""Quotation marks""; ""Semi-colon""; ""Exercises""; ""MORE THAN A SENTENCE""; ""Sayings""; ""Paragraphs""; ""Exercises""; ""ESSAYS, ARTICLES & BOOKS""; ""Theme""; ""Writing style""; ""Voice""; ""Genre""; ""Outlining""; ""Structure""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction / Foreword / Preface""; ""Body of Work""; ""Appendices""; ""Glossary""; ""Footnotes / Endnotes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Proofreading / Editing""; ""Exercises""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-932653-04-X

OCLC:

560182658