Grammar by Diagram second edition is a book designed for anyone who wishes to improve grammatical understanding & skill Using traditional sentence diagramming as a visual tool the book explains how to expand simple sentences into compound complex & compound-complex sentences & how to employ verbals (infinitives gerunds & participles) & other structures for additional variety The text addresses the most frequent usage errors by explaining how to distinguish between adjectives & adverbs; how to avoid problems of pronoun case agreement & consistency; how to ensure that verbs will agree with their subjects & will be appropriate in terms of tense aspect voice & mood; & how to phrase sentences to avoid errors in parallelism or placement of modifiers Six appendices incorporate further exercises a summary of key basics from the text & supplemental material not included in the body of the text but useful for quick reference This new edition
Includes:: additional exercises & has been revised & updated throughout