Thursday, September 9, 2010

ESL Basics

I've been working on this other baby site of mine called ESL Basics. I intend to compile in this website the grammar topics I teach to my professional learners in a copy-editing training initiated by the company I work for. It's going to be a huge, in-depth database designed for those who want to learn English as a Second Language. Here is the outline (I will link each to their respective actual pages as soon as I finish uploading the latter):
  • Parts of Speech
    • Noun
    • Pronoun
    • Verbs
    • Adjective
    • Adverb
    • Preposition
    • Conjunction
    • Interjection
  • Sentence Structure
    • Phrases
      • Verbal phrases
        • participial
          • nominative absolute
        • gerund
        • infinitive
      • Prepositional phrases
        • adjectival
        • adverbial
      • Introductory phrases
      • Parenthetical/appositive phrases
    • Fragments
    • Clauses
      •  Adjectival
      • Adverbial
      • Noun
    • Expletives
    • Sentence patterns/elements
      • Subject
        • subjective complement
          • predicate nominative/noun
          • predicate adjective
      • Verb/predicate
      • Direct object
        • objective complement
      • Indirect object
  • Verbs
    • Moods
    • Modals
    • Tenses
  • Rules of Concord
    • The rules of concord
    • Common grammar errors
    • Commonly confused words
    • American vs. British English
  • Article Usage
    • Definite article
    • Indefinite articles
    • No article
  • Punctuations
    • Endmarks
      • period
      • question mark
      • exclamation point
    • Comma
    • Colon
    • Semicolon
    • Dashes
      • hyphen
      • endash
      • emdash
      • minus
    • Quotations
      • single and double quotations
      • single and double straight quotations
      • single and double prime symbols
      • apostrophes

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