Brief and basic in its coverage, GRAMMAR TO GO, 5th Edition, offers students a unique focus on sentence diagramming that helps them visualize and understand how words connect. Perfect as a primary text or as a supplement for courses with an emphasis on learning basic grammar and punctuation skills, this edition incorporates a wide range of material to help students hone their skills, including additional “GrammarSpeak” features (which provide guidance on common errors in daily speech and writing); a new “Write Now” feature in each chapter that offers a specific writing topic for paragraph development while focusing on the grammar lessons of the chapter; and more integrated exercises on interesting topics from sports to history to the arts.

Part I: LEARNING GRAMMAR BASICS.
1. Getting Started.
2. Sentence Patterns.
3. Adjectives and Adverbs.
4. Phrases.
5. Verbals and Verbal Phrases.
6. Word Order Variations.
7. Clauses.
8. Types of Sentences.
Part II: PUTTING THE BASICS TO WORK.
9. Sentence Fragments and Run-On Sentences.
10. Commas.
11. Other Punctuation and Capitalization.
12. Pronouns.
13. Agreement.
14. Modifiers.
15. Sentence Coherence: Logic, Parallelism, and Shifts.
16. Parts of Speech: For Further Study.

Brief and basic in its coverage, GRAMMAR TO GO, 5th Edition, offers students a unique focus on sentence diagramming that helps them visualize and understand how words connect. Perfect as a primary text or as a supplement for courses with an emphasis on learning basic grammar and punctuation skills, this edition incorporates a wide range of material to help students hone their skills, including additional “GrammarSpeak” features (which provide guidance on common errors in daily speech and writing); a new “Write Now” feature in each chapter that offers a specific writing topic for paragraph development while focusing on the grammar lessons of the chapter; and more integrated exercises on interesting topics from sports to history to the arts. Updated and revised exercises provide new practice opportunities for students to develop their grammar skills in the context of a wide variety of topics. New to this edition, the “Write Now” feature offers a specific writing topic for paragraph development while reinforcing the grammar lessons of the chapter. Exercises throughout the text allow students to practice their grammar skills while learning about topics ranging from English literature to professional sports and the space program. This edition includes access to expanded information on the companion website, including a step-by-step guide to the more complex diagramming of verbals and clauses. A quick diagramming guide appears on the inside front cover of the text for easy reference. Each chapter of the text concludes with two writing exercises. “Ready to Write” exercises require students to identify specific elements in a short passage, while “Write Now” activities reinforce the lesson by giving students the opportunity to practice what they’ve learned in their own composition. End-of-chapter material also includes a “GrammarSpeak” exercise that allows students to correct some of the common misspoken words and phrases they hear every day, helping them to develop better oral language habits. Unlike a handbook, this book helps students understand how language works, emphasizing understanding over memorization so that concepts and patterns become automatic as students move from simple to complex concepts. The authors teach students how to “see” the various parts of the sentence through the use of diagramming, enabling them to understand how words relate and connect based on their position and function on the diagram frame. Each chapter allows students to participate in the discovery of each rule through a process of reasoning and evaluating as they construct sentences within particular patterns.