Pocket Book of English Grammar for Engineers and Scientists (McGraw-Hill Engineering Best) by Leo Fi

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College Pocket Book of English Grammar for Engineers and Scientists is geared specifically to the needs of engineering and science practitioners and students, although it is also appropriate for anyone doing technical or business writing.

The book is unique among grammar manuals not only because of its straightforward, simplified organizational structure, but also because of its use of innovative tools and examples.

Contents Back to top 1 Introduction 1.1 Importance of grammar 1.2 Parts of speech 1.3 Grammar and English as a second language 1.4 Sentence structure 2 Nouns 2.1 Definition and functions 2.2 Number 2.3 Type 2.4 Case 2.5 Gender 2.6 Offensive nouns 2.7 Appositives 2.8 Noun clauses 3 Pronouns 3.1 Definition and functions 3.2 Types of pronouns 4 Adjectives 4.1 Definition and functions 4.2 Classes of adjectives 4.3 Articles and other determiners 4.4 Adjectival clauses 4.5 Levels of comparison for adjectives 5 Verbs 5.1 Definition and function 5.2 Tense 5.3 Person and number 5.4 Irregular verbs 5.5 Form and voice 5.6 Mood 6 Adverbs 6.1 Adverbials 6.2 Levels of comparison for adverbs 6.3 Compound and absolute verbs 6.4 Placement of adverbs 6.5 Transitional phrases and adverbial conjunctions 7 Prepositions 7.1 Uses of prepositional phrases 7.2 Prepositions as a part of two-word verbs 8 Conjunctions 8.1 Coordinating conjunctions 8.2 Correlative conjunctions 8.3 Subordinating conjunctions 8.4 Adverbial conjunctions 9 Interjections 10 Punctuation 10.1 Apostrophe 10.2 Brackets 10.3 Colon 10.4 Comma 10.5 Dash 10.6 Ellipsis 10.7 Exclamation point 10.8 Hyphen 10.9 Parentheses 10.10 Period 10.11 Question mark 10.12 Quotation marks 10.13 Semicolon 10.14 Slash 11 Final Thoughts 12 Glossary

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2005, 176 pages, ISBN: 007352946X