English Grammar Demystified - A Self Teaching Guide
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51 CHAPTER 3 More About Verbs, Prepositions, and Pronouns In this chapter you will learn: Perfect Tenses Prepositional Phrases M ...
52 English Grammar Demystifi ed Perfect Tenses Every time you write a sentence, you use a verb to express time: Present time: My ...
I am writing business manuals for twenty years. (Tricky! Remember that am is a form of be.) The Tomkins owned the pharmacy for ...
54 English Grammar Demystifi ed The addition of the helping verb had shows that Jackie ate alone before someone invited him to j ...
FUTURE PERFECT TENSE What if you want to express one future action before another future action? For example: I will have visite ...
56 English Grammar Demystifi ed As the baseball hero walked into the stadium, the ecstatic fans cheered. Two actions happened at ...
After he had started school, we had started going to reading hour at the library. If we known about story hour, we would have s ...
58 English Grammar Demystifi ed with a noun, pronoun, or gerund. Look at the following examples of prepositional phrases: in the ...
Written Practice 3-6 In each of the following sentences, place parentheses around the prepositional phrase. Then fi nd the subje ...
60 English Grammar Demystifi ed Written Practice 3-7 In each of the following sentences, put the prepositional phrases in the co ...
CHAPTER 3 Verbs, Prepositions, and Pronouns^61 More About Pronouns There are a number of different types of pronouns that you sh ...
62 English Grammar Demystifi ed nouns: Try one pronoun at a time. For example, what would you do if you couldn’t decide between ...
Cindy liked the movie more than (she/her) did. The answer is now obvious to you: Cindy liked the movie more than she did. Keep t ...
64 English Grammar Demystifi ed Blame it on him and I. She takes the children to the playground more than him. Ownership Prono ...
Written Practice 3-9 Refer to the list at the top of page 61 to fi nd the ownership pronouns. Then correct the pronoun errors in ...
66 English Grammar Demystifi ed My boss suggested the project to Harry and myself. This sentence is an example of the overused m ...
All of you yourself have to make that decision. Ken sent an email to the team leader and ourself. Relative Pronouns Relative p ...
68 English Grammar Demystifi ed Who,Whom,That, or Which? Remember a few simple rules regarding the pronouns who,whom,that, and w ...
About (who/whom) were you speaking? Whom is correct because it is the object of the preposition about. Distinguish between that ...
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