Textbook on English Grammar & Communication

Textbook on English Grammar & Communication

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Author	Er. Mandeep Singh
Country	India
Language	English
Genre	Educational, Academic, Non-fiction
Publisher	VMG Academy & Consultants
Publication date	22 April 2025
ISBN	978-93-342-4832-6 (Paperback) 978-93-342-5940-7 (ebook)
Pages	365
Media type	Paperback, E-book, Kindle
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Textbook on English Grammar & Communication covers the complete academic syllabus on English grammar taught to school students in their foundation years from Grade 6 to Grade 10 along with its contextual usage for developing cognitive and communication skills. The book covers all important topics on grammar such as Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Tenses, Adverbs, Concords, Modals, Articles, Determiners, Conjunctions, Interjections, Prepositions, Phrase, Clause, Sentence, Paragraph, Punctuation, Prefix, Suffix, Lexicography, Speech and Dialogue, Direct and Indirect Speech, Active and Passive Voice, and Figures of Speech.

Additionally, it also covers topics that are less commonly addressed academically but are highly relevant for developing communication skills, such as Conversation Building, Expression Building, Public Speaking, Developmental Reading, Development of Learning and Memory, Comprehension Analysis, Dialogue Writing, Creative Writing, Letter Writing, Story Writing, Article Writing, Debate Writing, Writing Bio-sketches, Notice Writing, and Writing Messages and Blogs.

The book also helps with general vocabulary building for everyday usage, pronunciation analysis for effective listening, and understanding nonverbal communication. The textbook aims to develop a holistic mindset and confidence in learners by enabling them to understand the structural and functional use of the English language.

The textbook is not restricted to a particular curriculum prescribed in schools; rather, it is built with a global perspective on teaching and learning English—a curriculum designed for skill enhancement through understanding the structural and functional use of grammar as well as the art and science behind effective communication.

The textbook is learner-centric and contains hundreds of examples of specific use cases for every concept, along with interactive checkpoint exercises at the end of each chapter that enhance the cognitive learning experience of students for every applied use case. The overall aim of the textbook is to improve the knowledge, skills, and educational experience of students for using English as an official language medium while communicating in academic or professional settings.

It is an engaging resource for learning and acquiring English skills and can be used by students who are preparing for academic and competitive examinations, English teachers as an educational resource for preparing lesson plans or practice exercises, and working professionals who wish to develop advanced aptitude in English language skills for their careers.

Key Features

Some of the salient features of the book include:

• Helps in improving grammar
• Helps in improving academic skills
• Helps in enhancing communication skills
• Helps in building vocabulary
• Helps in gaining reading ability
• Helps in writing with impact
• Helps in speaking with confidence
• Helps in adapting to listening styles
• Helps in boosting personality
• Helps in dealing with the complexities of the English language

Target Readers

The following constitute ideal readers or learners for this book:

• School students (Grade 6 – Grade 10)
• School teachers, English language trainers, and instructors
• Language or linguistic professionals, translators, and interpreters
• English language training centers and educational institutions

Synopsis

Children vary in their ability understand English language in all its complex forms as well as use language for presenting detailed arguments, reasoning or generally engaging in a simple conversation with friends and peers. “Textbook on English Grammar & Communication” is your personal study guide for mastering English language skills for academic learning and effective communication. The book covers all important aspects necessary for acquiring English skills such that it helps in improving understanding of English grammar in context, building vocabulary, verbal and nonverbal communication skills for becoming an active user of English. Learners would find this textbook useful for building their own unique strategies for academic learning or professional communication and master their English language skills to take it to the next level.

The book focuses on both structural and functional aspects of spoken English that enables you adapt to listening style, improve pronunciation, improve personal communication, talk with confidence, write with impact, gain reading and comprehension ability and groom personality by understanding nonverbal communication gestures. The objective of the textbook is to spread a positive influence on students for learning English that enables them to express themselves confidently while interacting in English.

Learning Objectives: “Textbook on English Grammar and Communication” is a workbook-style self-help study that aims on improving cognitive knowledge, intellectual skills and educational experience of students for using English as an official medium of communication. The textbook is completely learner-centric where each chapter (e.g, nouns, adjectives, lexicography etc…) covers a unique aspect associated with acquiring English language skills along with hundreds of examples for every use case. There are interactive checkpoint exercises at the end of each chapter that enhances the cognitive learning experience of students for every applied use case. Each chapter is designed and built from a perspective to improve student’s understanding of English in structural and functional context and impart imagination and critical thinking for applying these concepts in their everyday usage. Teachers, trainers and English language instructors would find it useful for developing engaging lesson plans whilst use the content from checkpoint exercises to develop practice worksheets for students studying in different grades.

Learning Outcomes: Each chapter of this textbook comes with “SMART goals” – each chapter is “Specific” as it covers a unique aspect of English language (e.g. parts of speech, vocabulary, speech-making etc…), “Measurable” as it contains checkpoint exercises for assessment of each topic, “Achievable” as it covers the rules of English grammar or frameworks of English communication in clear, simple, lucid and comprehensive style, “Realistic” as it imparts the ability for using English confidently by students; and, “Time-bound” as each chapter or topic can be completed within just a few hours of training depending upon the grade of student or professional training. The overall objective of this textbook is that students or professionals should be able to use English naturally and effectively for articulating thoughts and ideas in real-life conversation with friends, peers and teachers as well as use English confidently for professional communication. It works on a systematic approach for acquiring English communication skills rather than simply relying on memorization of words, key phrases and jargon. It focuses on developing the necessary mindset, skillset and toolset that helps the student to become an active reader as well as motivates them to inculcate habits that makes them active learners.

Main Testing Competencies: The textbook is a workbook style self-help study guide that helps in developing core English language skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammar, vocabulary and communication) through interactive skill-based checkpoint exercises at the end of each chapter. Each topic contains a mix of questions ranging from low to higher levels of difficulty that reinforce the main concept in the mind of the learner for its contextual usage. Most of the questions in the checkpoint exercises are exam-style pattern questions, which helps students or teachers (who design practice worksheets) to adhere to the prescribed academic curriculum for testing the grammatical parts of speech.

These checkpoint exercises also provide a scope for assessing academic skills like critical thinking, logical reasoning, problem solving, comprehension analysis and imagination as learners discover the various parts of grammar in different literary contexts. The textbook also aims to assess learners on various verbal communication frameworks such as dialogue reporting, completing the conversation, building monologue expressions for asking questions or requesting information or using conditionals; speech-making in the classroom or public speaking assignments; various forms of writing (notices, messages, letters, emails, debates, stories, bio-sketch etc…); vocabulary testing and reading comprehension analysis as well as identifying nonverbal communication styles for effective communication.

The manuscript is a very useful guide for English teachers and learning centers who can design many engaging activities, workshops or lesson plans for formative or summative assessment of their students as well as for peer-to-peer learning in groups.

Author

Er. Mandeep Singh is a passionate academic writer, academic skills trainer, communication skills coach and a student counsellor with more than 15+ years of experience in education research & teaching. His creative niche is in writing books that focus on acquiring language skills, academic skills, vocabulary training, and research & communication practices for English, Science, Engineering and Medicine.

The philosophy of his textbooks focuses on improving cognitive learning behaviour among students by inculcating a rational and scientific approach towards learning. His books aims at acquiring language skills for retaining vocabulary and technical context as well as stress on the importance of aesthetics, presentation style and delivery for effective communication practices.

His books reflect his creative thought process and innovative approach for coaching core academic concepts using the rules of language as a medium of building cognitive memory as well as communicating ideas with others. In a crux, his books focus on language and vocabulary training for improving communication skills, teaching skills as well as enhancing skills for scientific research & communication.

His journey started 15 years ago as R&D scientist that slowly progressed into academic writing and coaching career. Prior to becoming an author, he has worked as an academic researcher, transcriptor, translator, content writer, editor, developer, web-blogger, student trainer and mentor demonstrating exceptional skills in these job roles.

He has helped in transforming thinking & imagination of more than 5000+ students or professionals through the medium of his books that earned him several accolades for his research career.

He completed his education as Bachelors in Chemical Engineering (B.E.) from College of Engineering, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune, India in 2006; and, Masters in Biochemical Engineering from University College London (UCL), London, England in 2008.

Besides that, he also holds a number of extra-academic certifications such as IELTS certificate, DSIR certificate for technical consultants, Medical Transcription certificate, IRDA IC-38 certificate for corporate agents, Certificate in Public speaking mastery and IAA author certificate.

He founded “VMG Academy & Consultants” in 2017, which is an education research & training organization aligned to the goals and mission of National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC).

Some of his professional affiliations include leading corporate organizations like PNB Metlife Insurance India, Star Health & Allied Insurance, Indian Counselling Association, India Authors Academy, Saffron Media Publications, REH News Group, Edumaats Consultants Group, Mentorleap Community, NGO’s like The Living Treasure Trust & Scope for Change Charity.

Er. Mandeep’s new identity as a self-published author really inspires him to write more and contribute more to the field of education. His career objective is to engage in knowledge transfer process for capacity-building of students, teachers & research professionals working in different areas of science & technology.

Chapter’s Summary

“Textbook on English Grammar & Communication” contains a total of thirty chapters. The initial chapters (Ch 2 – Ch 14) of the book focuses extensively on English grammar where the grammatical parts of speech are covered separately in each chapter. The mid-chapters (Ch 15 – Ch 22) focus on improving understanding of the structure of English by understanding the word syllables and rules for word formation as well as literary context of different reporting styles. The latter chapters (Ch 23 – Ch 30) of the book focuses on the functional aspects for building English language skills such as reading skills, vocabulary skills, verbal communication skills, conversation skills, public speaking skills, writing skills, graphical skills, listening skills and nonverbal communication skills for overall personality development of the student. Here is a brief summary of each chapter in context to this textbook:

• Chapter 1: Introduction to English Language – This chapter gives a brief description on the historical context of development of English language as a native language of Anglos, Saxons & Jute speaking groups of people living in the European sub-continent to its modern usage as an officially recognised global lingua franca. It appreciates the use of English language in the current global context for native as well as non-native speakers of English. This chapter can be useful for classroom discussion or research.

• Chapter 2: Introduction to English Grammar – This chapter brings into perspective the role and structure of English grammar as a foundation for building language skills as well as dwells on the evolutionary patterns that focus on the functional role of grammar for communication purpose. It helps in building a context for upcoming chapters and useful for someone studying English at a university level to understand the developmental forms of English language.

• Chapter 3: Nouns – This chapter focuses on nouns as a major class of naming words. It discusses various types of nouns and functional usage of nouns in context to English. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category of noun & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 4: Pronouns – This chapter focuses on pronouns as a class of words that substitute nouns. It discusses various types of pronouns and its functional usage in context to English. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category of pronoun & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 5: Adjectives – This chapter focuses on adjectives as a class of words that modify nouns. It discusses various types of adjectives and its functional usage in context to English. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category of adjective & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 6: Articles & Determiners – This chapter focuses on articles & determiners as a special class of adjectives. It discusses various types of determiners and its functional usage in context to English. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category of determiner & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 7: Verbs – This chapter focuses on verbs as another major class of words that describe an action. It discusses various types of verbs and its functional usage in context to English. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category of verbs & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 8: Tenses – This chapter focuses on tenses as a class of words that are used for reporting verbs in relation to time. It discusses various types of tenses and its functional usage in context to English. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category of past, present & future tense & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 9: Subject-Verb Agreement (Concords) – This chapter focuses on the relationship between the subject & linking verb that relates the action in relation to number & gender of the subject or time & form of the reporting verb. It focuses on the main structural elements of a sentence and how the verb links the subject to the rest of the sentence. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category of concords & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 10: Finite & Non-finite Verbs – This chapter focuses on a special class of verbs that either need an object to complete the action or explain verbs in the generic sense without relating to an object. It also discusses on the mood of verbs while reporting an expression. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category of verbs & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 11: Modals – This chapter focuses on a special class of helping verbs that are useful for building expressions explaining various circumstances like opinion, advice, command, suggestion, possibility or ability. It discusses various types of modal verbs and its functional usage in context to English. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 12: Adverbs – This chapter focuses on another class of modifying words that are capable of modifying other parts of speech (noun, pronouns, verbs or adjectives) in a sentence. It discusses various types of adverbs and its functional usage in context to English. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category of adverbs & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 13: Conjunctions & Interjections – This chapter focuses on connector elements as a class of words that link two or more words; or, two or more sentences. It also discusses interjections as words that helps to describe a human emotion or feeling in relation to an expression. It discusses various elements and its functional usage in context to English. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 14: Prepositions – This chapter focuses on prepositions as a special class of connector elements or words that indicates direction or position. It discusses various types of prepositions and its functional usage in context to English. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category of prepositions & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 15: Phrase & Clause – This chapter focuses on higher grammatical structure or syntax where a group of words or a modified word replaces a single word. The chapter discusses various types of phrases & clause elements and their functional usage in context to English. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 16: Sentence & Paragraph – This chapter focuses on higher grammatical structure or syntax in the form of a sentence or paragraph. The chapter explains sentence as an expression that conveys a complete thought while a paragraph as a collection of sentences containing related information. It discusses various types of sentences and its functional usage in context to English. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 17: Punctuations – This chapter focuses on punctuations as symbols or structural elements of grammar used in a sentence that either relate to spoken expressions, speech or visual aesthetics that enhance the meaning of written expressions. The chapter discusses various types of punctuation elements and their functional usage in context to English. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 18: Prefix & Suffix – This chapter focuses on prefix & suffix as word syllables that helps in modifying a word. The chapter discusses various types of prefix & suffix elements, appreciates the meaning, functional aspect and grammatical usage forms in context to English. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 19: Lexicography & English Word Formation – This chapter explores various grammatical rules of formation of words in English while appreciating the word roots in their original form. It discusses various rules of word formation or modification and its functional usage in context to English. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 20: Building English Language Skills – This chapter discusses English language skills of reading, writing, listening & speaking as well as skills required for effective communication. The chapter stresses on empirical & abstract ways of consuming & producing a language whilst motivates the learners on using active learning techniques for building language skills. It explains important ways of communication & its contextual usage. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concepts.

• Chapter 21: Speech & Dialogue Writing – This chapter focuses on identifying the structure of sentences used in dialogues, conversations and various speech forms. It discusses the direct form & reported form of speech as well as expressions made in the active voice & passive voice. It discusses various types of speech form and its functional usage in context to English. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 22: Figures of Speech & Literary Devices – This chapter appreciates the various forms of figurative expressions of English language used by poets, story writers, narrators, linguists, native speakers or theatre actors in their literature work. It discusses various forms of literary devices and its functional usage. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category & its usage form. Checkpoint exercises reinforce concepts.

• Chapter 23: Building Conversation Skills – This chapter identifies and appreciates various conversation strategies used by English people in their everyday lives. It focuses on identifying the main greeting expressions, catch phrases, or appropriate question & response expressions that forms a part of everyday dialogues or conversations between family members, friends or colleagues. The chapter gives relevant examples for each conversational framework & its usage form. Checkpoint exercises reinforce the concept.

• Chapter 24: Building Simple Expressions – This chapter identifies and appreciates the framework of making simple assertive expressions using grammatical parts of speech for asking question, interrogation, explanation or citing evidence. These simple expressions are a part of our everyday conversations in classroom, office, business, home or elsewhere. The chapter gives relevant examples for different expressions & its usage form. Checkpoint exercises reinforce concepts.

• Chapter 25: Public Speaking Skills – This chapter identifies & appreciates important frameworks for speech-making to a small or large group of people. It stresses on the main elements of speech building from identifying the audience to effective delivery of speech with an intended purpose for education, awareness or persuading the group. It discusses various forms of speeches and its functional usage. The chapter gives relevant examples for each type & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises helps to reinforce the concepts.

• Chapter 26: Writing Skills – This chapter focuses on understanding & developing writing skills whilst appreciates the various forms of creative writing frameworks like writing letters, email, notices, messages, blogs, articles, story, bio-sketches, diary, or a debate. The chapter gives relevant examples for each category & its usage form. The checkpoint exercises provides enough practice to reinforce concepts.

• Chapter 27: Reading & Comprehension Skills – This chapter focuses on understanding & developing reading skills as well as analytical skills by using developmental reading & comprehension techniques. It stresses on the importance of active reading and ways of comprehending for answering questions based on reading. The checkpoint exercises provide enough practice material to reinforce concepts.

• Chapter 28: Vocabulary Development – This chapter focuses on developing a good vocabulary of English words by students, which is based on corpus of words used in everyday life including personal information, relationships, important places, events or tasks. It also stresses on understanding synonyms, antonyms, homonyms and confusable terms. The checkpoint exercises provide enough practice material for same.

• Chapter 29: Listening Skills – This chapter focuses on developing listening skills by understanding the vocal utterances of phonetic syllables like vowels, diphthongs and consonants as well as appreciating the correct pronunciation of English words that helps to reinforce the sound associated with the word in the brain of an individual. The chapter also cites important practical ways of consuming English language through various audio-visual tools or listening techniques. The checkpoint exercises provide enough practice material to reinforce concepts.

• Chapter 30: Non-verbal Communication – This chapter focuses on understanding & developing non-verbal communication cues that relate our eye movements, bodily movements, facial expressions or hand gestures to the communication process. The chapter also stresses on the role of sensory receptors for enhancing our verbal or nonverbal communication ability. The checkpoint exercises provide enough practice material to reinforce concepts.

Themes

The pedagogical framework for this textbook is based on improving cognitive understanding for learning English and improving English language skills for academic or non-academic communication through interactive skills-based exercises.

• The student learner discovers English grammar as a structural tool for building language skills in discrete units (parts of speech, word formation) for identification of various word classes with relevant examples as well as understand functional usage of grammar for clear and effective communication. The author has included many use-case examples for each topic (and sub-topic) that dwell both on the structural and functional aspects of English language. Many chapters contain cross-reference links to related topics in another chapter for teaching different aspects of grammar to students as academic curriculum in school always aims to integrate various parts of grammar rather than teaching them as standalone topics. For example, suffix is commonly used for modifying words from nouns to adjectives or vice versa so, a topic in the chapter of nouns contains cross-reference to chapter on suffix that allows students or teachers to introduce the concept while learning the main topic.

• The textbook aims at dual learning of both English grammar and Communication skills. It begins with a brief history and perspective on English language as universal common language for communication purpose and introduces the core concepts of English grammar as main building blocks for acquiring English skills. The textbook slowly progresses spirally integrating the concepts of grammar towards its functional role as a tool for communication. Later chapters of the textbooks focuses on building English language skills for effective communication. They aims to enrich the vocabulary of learners through corpus of internationally spoken words and improve understanding of functional usage of English through dialogues, conversations, speech-making, storytelling and writing frameworks that are explained in relevant chapters. These frameworks are proven active learning techniques that help learners in improving academic and non-academic communication skills for public speaking and effective writing. These chapters contain hundreds of examples on conversation styles and expression building for dialogue practice or speech making. They also include key to pronunciation for developing listening skills and guide for improving articulation style and tone for improving speaking skills. The manuscript contains a mix of definitions, key concepts of grammar, relevant examples, interactive checkpoint exercises and logical frameworks for each chapter hence, it is truly a workbook-style textbook for learning or teaching English language.

• It is a self-help workbook-style study guide, which is useful for both student learners who are looking for practice material as well as English teachers who want to design practice worksheets, engaging lesson plans, fun learning activities or interactive games for their students. Each chapter-wise checkpoint exercises include elementary, intermediate & advanced level questions for English language skills assessment of students studying in different grades. These practice questions are based on exam-style pattern questions and aesthetically presented in various formats like word-distribution, word selection, fill in the blanks in sentences, match the columns, identifying correct words, error identification, identifying the function or grammatical context, unscrambling words or phrases to form a sentence, editing, omission and paraphrasing, completing a response element or selection of appropriate response and various other vocabulary-based, reading comprehension based and writing based exercises. The appendix contains a solution supplement of checkpoint exercises.

• It is also guide containing nonverbal communication cues for improving personality and confidence among learners. The manuscript is a blend of grammar and communication for interactive and applied learning of English language, which is aesthetically enhanced with clear titles, sub-titles, bullet points, visual info-graphics, tabular presentation, presentation of exercise questions and overall well-formatted.

Publication Details

• Publisher: VMG ACADEMY & CONSULTANTS
• ISBN: 978-93-342-4832-6 (Paperback), 978-93-342-5940-7 (ebook)
• ASIN: B0F5WQW93K
• Language: English
• Format: Kindle Book | Paperback | E-book
• Length: 365 Pages (A4 Size)
• Release Date: 22 April 2025
• Contact: vmgacademy@gmail.com

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• Er. Mandeep Singh
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