Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie Biblioteek

The authors have aimed at presenting a study of English grammar and traditional language skills, and at the same time capturing student interest through literary extracts and creative exercises. Units focus on traditional skills such as composition, comprehension, vocabulary extension, punctuation, spelling, creative work and speech work. It also contains its own student's reference dictionary at the back of the book. It aims at having students doing things with language -- reading, writing, speaking, thinking, analysing, observing and creating. Death of a pony/John Steinbeck: nouns. There came a cry of joy/Loren Eiseley: finite and infinite verbs, present and past tense, active and passive. Lightning strikes: adjectives and nouns. King Cobra/Frank Buck: adjectives, phrases and sentences, adjectival phrases, participles. Will the whales survive?: adjectival clauses, clauses and phrases, main clause and adjectival clause. Timothy Winters/Charles Causley: comparisons, colour. Leather-jackets, bikes and birds/Robert Davies: smell and sound. Ice crevasse/Lennard Bickel: adverbs. Survival can be just luck/Tim Dare: adverbial phrases and clauses. Many tongues?s/E. Hinton: pronouns, plural. CB radio: idiom, usage, proverbs. The giant clam/Owen Mass: conjunctions. The man who came in from the sea/Richard Garrett: participles, as verb, adjective, noun, combining sentences. Attacked by scorpions/Gerald Durrell: prepositions. Thanks/Michael Frayn: noun objets, compound nouns. Ideas for writing. The battle for the reservoir/Alexander Cordell: adjectival and adverbial clauses, pronouns, verbs, structure of sentences, synonyms. Wing/Roche Products: capitals. Confusing word pairs.