Dykes Barbara. Grammar for Everyone. Pratical Tools for Learning and Teaching Grammar

Camberwell, Vic.: ACER Press, 2007. — 224 p. — ISBN 13: 9780864314789, ISBN 10: 0864314787As its name suggests, Grammar for Everyone seeks to provide practical tools for learning and teaching grammar – for everyone.
Grammar for Everyone provides a thorough reference guide for the different types of word, guidance for correct punctuation, instruction for optimal sentence structure and advice for a correct, clear and persuasive way to speak and write. Most importantly, Grammar for Everyone offers excellent advice for those in a position to teach others.Our national language, and the culture from which it has formed, is the rightful inheritance of all English-speaking people. It deserves to be taught with knowledge and respect. English is now spoken, also, by more than 500 million people around the world. They need the opportunity to learn to speak and write it confidently, and correctly. Grammar provides a language to talk about language. As a mechanic needs naming words for the parts of an engine, so a student needs naming words for the components of speech and writing. This practical book provides all who learn or teach Grammar with these skills in a clear step-by-step process. It provides teachers with an armoury of learning strategies to use at all levels. Grammar should be fun to teach and fun to learn.Foreword
Teaching grammar
Grammar – background and history
Teaching strategies for the contemporary classroom
Practical suggestions
The parts of speechNouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Articles
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Interjections
Sentence forms
The apostrophe
Commas
Inverted commas
Subject and predicate
Objects – direct and indirect
More about verbs
Participles
Perfect tenses
More about adjectives and adverbs
More punctuation
More pronouns
Emphasis
Mood
Case
Phrases
Clauses
Clause analysis
Word building
Improve the way you speak and write
A final word