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Grammar guide 3 CThe briefest English grammar and punctuation guide ever Ruth Colman grew up in a northern Sydney beach suburb and attended state schools She did a colourful BA at the University of Sydney She taught English at secondary schools for about

CThe briefest English grammar and punctuation guide ever Ruth Colman grew up in a northern Sydney beach suburb and attended state schools She did a colourful BA at the University of Sydney She taught English at secondary schools for about ten years in Australia and South-east Asia before getting sidetracked into editorial work CA UNSW Press book Published by University of New South Wales Press Ltd University of New South Wales Sydney NSW AUSTRALIA www unswpress com au ? Ruth Colman The briefest English grammar ever First published by the author First published by UNSW Press Reprinted The briefest punctuation guide ever First published by UNSW Press This book is copyright Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study research criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission Inquiries should be addressed to the publisher National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Author Colman Ruth V Title The briefest English grammar and punctuation guide ever by Ruth Colman ISBN pbk Subjects English language ?? Grammar English language ?? Punctuation Dewey Number Design Di Quick Print Everbest China CThe briefest English grammar and punctuation guide ever Ruth Colman UNSW PRESS C CContents PART Grammar Preface to the grammar guide Intro Sentences Clauses and phrases Words ?? and their functions Nouns Pronouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions Articles or determiners Exclamations More about clauses In conclusion CPART Punctuation Preface What this part is and isn ? t Intro I ? m writing ordinary sentences What punctuation marks do I need What ? s the di ?erence between a hyphen and a dash Aren ? t they the same Capital letters can be confusing When should I use them When shouldn ? t I use them Please Please tell me about apostrophes I ? m quoting something written by someone else What are the rules I want to write a conversation just as it was spoken Lists Are there any rules Not strictly punctuation but In conclusion Helpful books C CPART Grammar C Preface to the grammar guide When English speakers begin to learn other languages they often ?nd themselves being taught via methods that assume they have a basic knowledge of English grammar Some of us however have come through a school system that taught little or nothing of the way our language is structured We recognise when things ??sound right ? or ??sound wrong ? but we cannot say why We now want to study a second language to read it or speak it or both and we are non-plussed when the teacher says ??In German the verb comes at the end of the clause ? or ??That ? s the indirect object ? I hope this small guide will ?ll a gap and give you the basics whether you want to learn another language or not and if you do whether your aimed-for second language is Spanish Anindilyakwa New Testament Greek Swahili or anything else Don