This Textbook is designed for students who want to learn some necessary rules for standard English language. Knowing the traditional rules of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and its usage will help students, as a writer, compose clear sentences and as a reader, understand complex structures that appear in articles.
Unit 1 Basic Sentence
- What is a sentence?
- Sentence types
- Types of traditional sentence patterns
- Sentence / Clause / Phrase: What are their differences?
Unit 2 Noun Modification
- Pre-noun modification
- Post-noun modification
Unit 3 Verb Modification
- Adverbs
- Adverb clauses
- Participial phrases
- Infinitive phrases
- Prepositional phrases
- Sentence fragments
Unit 4 Complex Sentence
- Functions of a subordinate clause in a sentence
- A noun clause
Unit 5 Compound Sentence
- Coordinating conjunctions
- Sentence adverbs
- Parallelism
- Proper punctuation methods
- Some common errors to avoid
- Compound-complex structures