Modern English: A Practical Reference Guide Book

	Preface
1	Introduction to Parts of Speech	1
2	Nouns	5
3	Pronouns	18
4	Verbs	44
5	Auxiliaries	93
6	Adjectives	109
7	Articles	125
8	Adverbs	141
9	Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases	162
10	Conjunctions and Compounding	206
11	Sentences and Clauses	220
12	Introduction to Complex Syntactic Structures	230
13	Adverbial Clauses	232
14	Adjective Clauses	273
15	Noun Clauses	280
16	Participial Phrases	301
17	Gerund Phrases	310
18	Infinitive Phrases	323
19	Absolute Constructions	346
20	Abstract Noun Phrases	353
21	Appositive Noun and Adjective Phrases	361
	App. Punctuation Related to Style and Sentence Structure	369
	App. Spelling Rules	374
	App. Glossary of Grammatical Terms	382
	App. Irregular Verbs	387
	Index	391