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COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH: GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION by R.K.Singh. Published by: Prakash Book Depot, Bara bazar, Bareilly 243003, India, 2004, ISBN 81-7977-092-3

COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH: GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION is particularly written for ESL students who are expected to concentrate on both the rules of English grammar and the principles of English rhetoric to improve their performance.

Structured for a semester-long course, it provides an introduction to grammar and syntax, with exercises and keys to selected exercises. It also provides practice in paragraph and essay writing, reading comprehenstion, and dialogue writing, and is useful to both who arew using English for their specific studies and for general purposes.

In fact the author addresses himself to acadsemic literacy across disciplines and seeks to help post-secondary students gain fluency in the conventions of English language academic discourses. He explains and illustrates concepts of grammar and other formal and informal language use in a format and style which is engaging and motivating them to navigate their professional studies.
The book grows out of his three decades of varied ELT experiences.

CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION TO GRAMMAR

1. Parts of Speech
A. WORDS THAT NAME
B. WORDS THAT ASSERT
C. WORDS THAT MODIFY
D. WORDS THAT CONNECT

2. Articles
A. INDEFINITE ARTICLE
B. DEFINITE ARTICLE

3. Verbs
A. HEART OF PREDICATE
B. TENSES
C. THREE FORMS
D. TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE
E. LINKING VERB
F. IMPERATIVE FORM
G. OTHER MOODS
H. VOICE
I. VERBALS
J. VERB PHRASES
K. PJRASAL VERBS

4. Concord
A. SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
B. SUBJECT-PRONOUN AGREEMENT
C. SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF AGREEMENT

5. Prepositions
A. PREPOSITIONS OF 'PLACE'
B. PREPOSITIONS OF 'TIME'
C.PHRASAL PREPOSITIONS

II. SENTENCE EFFECTIVENESS

COMMON SENTENCE ERRORS
USE STANDARD ENGLISH
AVOID SLANG, LAZY ADJECTIVE, COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSION
AVOID UNCOMMON/RARE/LITERARY EXPRESSION
AVOID SENTENCE FRAGMENTS
FUSED SENTENCE
AWKWARD SENTENCE
MISPLACED MODIFIERS
SPLIT INFINITIVES
DANGLING MODIFIERS
SQUINTING MODIFIERES/DANGLING CLAUSES
INTERRUPTED CONSTRUCTION
SHIFTED CONSTRUCTION/PARALLELISM
REDUNDANT MODIFIERS/QUALIFIERS
AVOID USING 'SEXIST' LANGUAGE
AVOID WORDINESS
USING CLAUSE SUBORDINATION
RELATIVE CLAUSE
ELLIPSES
TO SUM UP

III. PARAGRAPH WRITING

WRITING AN ESSAY

IV. PRECIS

V. COMPREHENSION
REASONS FOR READING

VI. DIALOGUE WRITING

VII. KEY TO SELECTED EXERCISES

MATERIALS REFERRED TO AND/OR RECOMMENDED FOR USE IN CLASS

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Interested teachers/students may like to contact: rahulbareilly@yahoo.com

prakashbookdepot@sancharnet.in


R.K.SINGH