Grammar course info
- Error Correction 2010 (PDF)
- Dangling modifiers :)
- Students' cloze tests
- Translation task - example
- Simple sentence analysis
- Multiple sentence analysis
- Sentence clarity & combining - presentation from Purdue University's OWL
- Conquering the Comma - Purdue again
- Punctuation with HOWEVER
- Articles - gap filling
- Word formation - example
- End focus and fronting
- Use of tenses with "recently"
- Use of "as if"
- PLURAL forms - a quiz
- Use of "resign from"
End focus and fronting
Rewrite the following sentences to give end-focus to the underlined elements.
- I enjoy Mahler more than any other composer.
- A man in a black raincoat bought the Sheraton chairs.
- Staying at Luke's was never boring.
- A rifle shot interrupted our picnic.
- It was the following Tuesday that the rains started.
- They love it and we love it too.
- My lawn will not be ruined by any moles.
- There was a fanfare and the champion marched in.
- I shouldn't think so.
- He can't write and he can't read, by all accounts.
Rewrite the following, fronting the underlined word(s) and using any necessary inversion.
- Our favourite is roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.
- He'd never heard of such a thing.
- I told him, 'I am optimistic.'
- The President jumped up, his face burning.
- The President said, 'Resign? I shall never resign.'
- They ran off at full speed.
- Her entrance was such that every voice was stilled.
- It was the dog that died.
- They are here.
- He was not very angry, either.