English Grammar Demystified - A Self Teaching Guide
150 PART TWO TEST A long complicated contract arrived in the mail. (a) A long complicated contract, arrived in the mail. (b) A ...
PART THREE MASTERING GOOD SENTENCE STRUCTURE ...
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153 CHAPTER 7 Building Better Sentences In this chapter you will learn: Building Balanced Sentences Creating Well-Connected Sent ...
154 English Grammar Demystifi ed For example, you know how to recognize describing words and phrases. However, do you know how t ...
CHAPTER 7 Building Better Sentences^155 linking verb. You recall that a linking verb brings together or links the subject to a d ...
156 English Grammar Demystifi ed The complete thought was changed to a simple adjective, hungry. The adverb, obvi- ously, adds m ...
CHAPTER 7 Building Better Sentences^157 CREATING BALANCE WITH PARALLEL VERB FORMS Look at a different kind of balancing error: I ...
158 English Grammar Demystifi ed Written Practice 7-2 Balance the following sentences. Every day, I walk the trails with my dog ...
CHAPTER 7 Building Better Sentences^159 Examples are either/or,neither/nor,both/and,not only/but also. These conjunction pairs n ...
160 English Grammar Demystifi ed Chocolate is not only delicious but it is energizing also. Either you take the late shift and ...
CHAPTER 7 Building Better Sentences^161 Using the word therefore can make an even stronger connection. However, with any of the ...
162 English Grammar Demystifi ed We could walk anywhere on the grounds. We couldn’t disturb the workers. When you bake, fi rst ...
CHAPTER 7 Building Better Sentences^163 You read about such a clause in Chapter 1; it is a fragment. After reading it, you want ...
164 English Grammar Demystifi ed You bought me a very expensive gift I asked you not to. you agree with me, vote yes on that is ...
CHAPTER 7 Building Better Sentences^165 Conjunctive Adverbs That Express Time then meanwhile at one moment... at the next afterw ...
166 English Grammar Demystifi ed We installed a new deck; , we can see that the lumber was not cut correctly. I’ve already call ...
CHAPTER 7 Building Better Sentences^167 (Condition) Some populations are diffi cult to survey; , our work would be easier. (Tim ...
168 English Grammar Demystifi ed How much simpler would it be to say, I shopped on Thursday because I knew the vegetables would ...
CHAPTER 7 Building Better Sentences^169 We were looking for a house painter who was skilled. While we were waiting for the trai ...
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