English Grammar and Composition Book By Wren and Martin

Important Note About This Book :

• The material in wren and Martin Monumental work High School English Grammar and Composition has been further updated wherever it has been felt necessary ,particularly   in the chapter  dealing with adjectives ,active and passive voice articles and preposition .
• Unlike many traditional grammar books ,this book in the present form helps the students to use the language as well as giving detailed information about the language .It provides simple guidance and practice in sentence building ,correct usage ,comprehension ,written composition and other allied areas.

BOOK I. GRAMMAR

CHAPTERS

• The sentence
• Subject and predicate
• The phrase and the clause
• Parts of speech
• The noun: kinds of nouns
• The noun: gender
• The noun: number
• The noun: case
• The adjective
• Comparison of adjectives
• Adjectives used as nouns
• Position of the adjectives
• The correct use of some adjectives
• Articles
• Personal pronouns
• Reflexive and emphatic pronouns
• Demonstrative, indefinite and distributive pronouns
• Relative pronouns
• Interrogative pronouns
• The verb
• Verbs of incomplete predication
• Active and passive voice mood
• Tenses: introduction
• The Uses of the present and past tenses
• The future
• The verb: person and number
• The infinitive
• The participle
• The gerund
• Irregular verbs
• Auxiliaries and modals
• Conjugation of the verb love
• The adverb
• Comparison of adverbs
• Formation of adverbs
• Position of adverbs
• The preposition
• Words followed by prepositions
• The conjunction
• Some Conjunctions and their uses
• The interjection
• The same word used as different parts of speech

BOOK II. COMPOSITION

Part I Analysis, Transformation and Synthesis

• Analysis of simple sentences
• Phrases
• Clauses
• Sentences: simple, compound and complex
• More about noun clauses
• More about adjective clauses
• More about adverb clauses
• Analysis of complex sentences
• Analysis of compound sentences
• Transformation of sentences
• Transformation of sentences
• Synthesis of sentences
• Synthesis of sentences
• Synthesis of sentences
• The sequence of tenses
• Direct and indirect speech

BOOK II. COMPOSITION

• AGREEMENT OF THE VERB WITH THE SUBJECT
• NOUNS AND PRONOUNS
• ADJECTIVES
• VERBS
• ADVERBS
• Conjunctions
• Order of words
• Idioms
• Idioms
• Punctuation
• Spelling rules
• The formation of words
• Figures of speech

BOOK III.  STRUCTURES

• Verb patterns
• Question tags, short answers, etc.
• More structures

BOOK IV. WRITTEN CUMPUSITIUN

• Paragraph-Writing
• Story-Writing
• Reproduction of a story- poem
• Letter-writing
• Comprehension
• Precis-writing
• Expansion of Passages
• Essay-writing
• Autobiographies
• Dialogue-writing
• The appreciation of poetry
• Paraphrasing
• Common abbreviations