EG20 Course Contents

Chapter 1: Subject and Verb

• Complete Subject and Complete Predicate
• Simple Subject and Simple Predicate: Subject and Verb
• Action Verbs and Linking Verbs
• Identifying Subjects of Action Verbs
• Identifying Subjects of Linking Verbs
• Do not Confuse a Sentence Subject with a Nearby Object of a Preposition
• Common Linking Verbs
• Some Verbs Can Be either Linking or Action
• Linking Verbs with Predicate Nouns
• Compound Verbs
• Compound Subjects
• Verbs of More Than One Word: Main Verbs and Helping Verbs
• Style: Subject and Verb Choice
• Identifying Subjects in Special Situations:
  • “There” and “Here” not Sentence Subjects
  • Subject after Verb
  • Subject Separated from Verb
• Style: Active and Passive Voice

Chapter 2: Clauses

• What is a Clause?
• Differentiating Clauses from Phrases
• Coordinating Conjunctions to Link Clauses
• Style: Sentence Combining (Coordination)
• Subordinating Conjunctions
• Independent and Dependent Clauses
• Comparing Coordination and Subordination
• Dependent Clauses as Sentence Fragments
• Every Sentence Needs at least One Independent Clause
• Style: Sentence Combining (Coordination and Subordination)
• Semicolons To Coordinate Clauses
• Comma Splices and Run-together Sentences
• Conjunctive Adverbs and Clause Coordination
• Style: Sentence Combining (Coordinating Conjunctions, Subordinating Conjunctions, Semicolons, and Conjunctive Adverbs)
• Classifying Sentences by Structure: Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences

Chapter 3: Sentence Patterns

• Introduction to Sentence Patterns: Objects and Other Complements
• Introduction to Sentence Diagramming
• Prepositional Phrases as Adjectival and
• Adverbial Modifiers
• Sentence Pattern: Subject-Verb
• Predicates and Complements
• Sentence Pattern: Subject-Verb-Direct Object
• Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
• Diagramming Compound Elements: Subjects, Verbs, Direct Objects
• Sentence Pattern: Subject-Verb-Indirect Object-Direct Object
• Sentence Pattern: Subject-Verb-Predicate Adjective
• Sentence Pattern: Subject-Verb-Predicate Noun
• Sentence Pattern: Subject-Verb-Direct Object (Object Complement)
• Summary of Sentence Patterns

Chapter 4: Verbal Constructions (Non-Finite Verb Phrases)

• Introduction to Verbals
• -ing Verbals as Adjectives (Participles)
• A Test for -ing Verb Forms Functioning as Verbs
• -ing Verbals and -ed Verbals (Present and Past Participles)
• More on -ing Verb Forms as Verbs
• More on -ed Verb Forms as Verbs
• A Glance at the Principal Parts of Verbs
• Verbal Phrases
• More on Phrases
• Style: Sentence Combining (Participial Phrases)
• Analyzing Participial Phrases
• Introduction to Gerunds
• Gerunds as Subjects
• Gerunds as Direct Objects
• Other Gerunds
• Analyzing Gerund Phrases
• Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases
• Infintive Phrases within Sentences
• Analyzing Infinitive Phrases
• Infinitive Clauses
• Sentence Combining: Coordination, Subordination, and Verbal Phrases