Bøger af Amy Lynn Hess

This 12-chapter textbook teaches sentence diagramming from beginning concepts to advanced sentence structures. It was written and designed by an experienced teacher of Developmental English. The methods and lessons have been classroom tested, revised, and published here as effective teaching aids. In addition to examples, explanations, and step-by step instructions, there are 10 exercise sentences for students to study and diagram per chapter, and there are additional questions for review that cover all levels of the Taxonomy. Answer keys for all of the exercises appear in the text! Four comprehensive quizzes that can be used as pretests or exams are included at the end of the text. This text is appropriate for language learners from age 9 to 99, making it a great tool for teachers, parents, students, and lifelong learners. Look for the supplemental materials text called Additional Exercises for Diagramming Sentences. It contains 150 additional sentences and answer keys, comprehensive exercises, and additional examples that follow the main text, chapter by chapter. Specific topics include simple and compound subjects and predicates, modifiers, direct and indirect objects, object complements, predicate adjectives and predicate nominatives, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences, interrogative sentences, appositives, direct address, existential constructions, prepositions and prepositional phrases, gerunds and gerund phrases, noun and modifying clauses.Professor Hess has been teaching English and Critical Thinking since 2008, developing, refining, and creating the materials contained in this book: Twelve chapters packed full of illustrations, explanations, practice sentences, and review materials.

This short book is a collection of character studies set to the short story form. Hess explores the complexities of relationships between men and women, and the way men and women live with, and without, listening to one another. This collection includes "Nothing Extraordinary," the story of one Mr. Sissue, who just can't seem to get a handle on love or life. It also includes "The One Homeless Woman of Athens, Ohio," a story that explores a winning moment in the life of that one woman. The third story, "Mrs. Gumblebee," serves as a warning for all those who misplace their passion. The last story, but certainly not to be overlooked, is "Evelyn's New Car," a story that vicariously spits in the eye of all fast-talking salesmen who forget to listen to their customers.

This is the supplemental materials text for Diagramming Sentences: A Playful Way to Analyze Everyday Language. It includes 150 additional exercises and examples for diagramming sentences, plus comprehensive exercises, identification exercises, and comprehensive multiple choice exercises. The additional exercises and examples align, chapter by chapter, with the main text.