Grammar & Diagramming Sentences (Advanced Straight Forward English Series)

Greetings, I cannot review this item because I have yet to receive it! Thank you for the opportunity to tell someone about it........This seller is NOT to be trusted. Regards, Jim Conlon

The booklet is too concise to cover this subject. I do not find good value in it. There are a few much better Grammar Diagramming books out there. This book is the least effective one.

Buying and teaching from this book will do your students irreparable harm. The author does not understand sentence structure or verb usage. Most seriously, she confuses active and passive voice with transitive and intransitive verbs. She also privileges passive voice over sentences beginning with expletives, a choice that will result in poorly written essays. Teachers who inherit the students who have learned from this book will have to undo all the damage done by instructing students that, for instance, the verb "to smell" is a passive verb. I have cancelled my course adoption of this book and suggest that others do likewise.

Grammar has always seemed more like an art than a science to me. There are many rules that do not always make logical sense. The technique of sentence diagramming allows you to apply logic to the rules of grammar. This allows you to graphically represent exactly what a sentience means.

One very nice feature of the book is an extensive glossary. This defines well over one hundred grammar terms. Don't remember what a prepositional phrase or gerund is? The book's glossary will tell you!

The book teaches by example, which is very important for sentence diagramming. There are many example sentences in the book, all diagrammed. The book begins with simple sentences and progressively moves on to more complex ones.

If you want a better understanding of English grammar, or need a study aid for sentence diagramming, this is a very good book.

As an owner of a business, I'm too busy to write reviews but I just had to do it for this one. This is an extraordinary aid in helping my staff to write and speak well. Every business, every student should have copies. I looked at Dr.Hayes' other grammar book--TROUBLESEOME GRAMMAR--and it's just as good. Buy it. What a help this is.