Aspects of Grammar: A Handbook for Writing Assessment

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New South Wales Department of Education and Training, 2006. — 44 с.Учебное пособие содержит материал для подготовки к письменным экзаменам по английскому языку. Contents Overview What is a text? Grammar A literary text: narrative A factual text: explanation Activity one: considering student responses What are the elements of a sentence? Subject, verb, object How do writers enhance meaning in a sentence? Nouns, noun groups and pronouns Activity two: nouns and noun groups Activity three: pronoun errors Solutions to Activity two and Activity three Verbs, verb groups, tense, adverbs and adverbial phrases Activity four: verb groups, finite and non-finite verbs Activity five: verb errors Solutions to Activity four and Activity five Clauses and phrases Activity six: clauses Activity seven: adverbial and adjectival phrases Solutions to Activity six and Activity seven How are sentences structured? Simple, compound and complex sentences Activity eight: correct and incorrect sentences Activity nine: sentence types Solutions to Activity eight and Activity nine How are whole texts structured? Whole text organisation Paragraphs Activity ten: paragraphs Solution to Activity ten Activity eleven: mixed errors Solutions to Activity eleven [b]Other relevant concepts Stylistic devices Voice Modality Rhetorical devices Nominalisation