Jane Hanser

Below is the detailed Table of Contents of my new book, "Nobody Knows How to Write a Grammar Book Better Than Me." Following this detailed Table of Contents you will find my author bio. Thank you.

PART I: PARTS OF SPEECH

CHAPTER 1: Islands, Oceans, and Walls Nouns and Pronouns

What Is a Noun? What Is a Pronoun?

1-1 Countable Nouns

1-2 Singular Countable Nouns

1-3 Plural Countable Nouns

1-3a Regular Plural Nouns

1-3b Irregular Plural Nouns

1-4 Noncount Nouns

1-4a Subject-Verb Agreement with Noncount Nouns

1-5 Noun Phrases

1-6 How to Quantify a Noun

1-6a How to Quantify a Countable Noun

1-6b How to Quantify a Noncountable Noun

1-6c How to Count a Noncountable Noun

1-6d How to Intensify a Noun Phrase: some and such

1-7 How to Use a Noun to Modify Another Noun

1-8 Characteristics of Pronouns

1-8a Subject Pronouns

1-8b Object Pronouns

1-8c Reflexive Pronouns

1-8b Possessive Pronouns

1-8e Demonstrative Pronouns

1-9 Pronoun/Noun Agreement

1-10 Pronouns and Improper Use of Double Negatives

1-11 Noun Clauses

1-11a Noun Clauses and Subject-Verb Agreement

CHAPTER 2: The Wall Articles

What Is an Article?

2-1 Articles and Countable Nouns

2-1a The Singular Countable Noun: a and an

2-1b Singular Countable Nouns: the

2-2 Articles and Plural Countable Nouns

2-2a No Article

2-2b the

2-3 Articles and Noncountable Nouns

2-3a No Article

2-3b the vs. no article

2-4 Names of -

2-4a Languages

2-4b Countries and Geopolitical Entities

2-4c Nationalities and Ethnic Groups

Chapter 3: I Will Build the Wall Verbs and Modals

What Is a Verb?

Verb Vocabulary

3-1 Subject-Verb Agreement

3-1a Who and Indefinite Pronouns

3-1b Subject-Verb Agreement and Prepositional Phrases

3-2 Action Verbs vs. be Verbs

3-3 Auxiliaries (Helping Verbs)

3-4 Simple Present Tense

3-4a Simple Present Tense – Positive

3-4b Simple Present Tense – Negative

3-4c Contractions

3-5 Simple Past Tense

3-5a Regular Action Verbs

3-5b Irregular Action Verbs

3-5c be Verb

3-6 Progressive (Continuous) Tenses: Past, Present, Future

3-7 Present Progressive (Continuous) Tense

3-8 Simple Present vs. Present Progressive Tense

3-9 Past Progressive (Continuous) Tense

3-10 Non-progressive Verbs

3-11 The Perfect Tenses

3-11a Present Perfect Tense

3-11b Past Perfect Tense

3-11c Present Perfect Continuous Tense

3-12 Future Time Reference

3-13 Commands (Imperatives)

3-14 Our Big and Beautiful Chart of Verb Forms and Their Uses

Introduction to Modals

What is a Modal?

3-15 The Uses and Forms of Modals

3-16 Would

3-17 Troublesome and Frequently Misused Verbs got/have; fell/felt; going to/“gonna”; say/ tell

3-18 say vs. tell

3-19 Double Negatives Revisited

Chapter 4: I Will Build a Great, Great Wall on Our Southern Border Adjectives and Adverbs

What Is an Adjective?

4-1 Adjectives in Noun Phrases

4-2 Descriptive Adjectives

4-3 When a Noun Functions as an Adjective

4-4 Possessive Adjectives

4-5 Demonstrative Adjectives

4-6 Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adjectives

4-6a One Syllable Adjectives

4-6b Multi-syllable Adjectives that End in ~y

4-6c Multi-syllable Adjectives that Do Not End in ~y

4-7 Word Order: Using Two or More Comparatives or Superlatives

4-8 Adjective (Relative) Clauses

What Is an Adverb?

4-9 Adverbs as Intensifiers and Limiters

4-10 How to Form an Adverb That Has an Adjective as its Root

4-11 Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adverbs

Chapter 5: Michael is My Attorney Possessives

What Is a Possessive?

5-1 Possessive Nouns

5-2 How to Form a Possessive Noun

5-3 Possessive Pronouns

5-4 Possessive Adjectives

5-5 Commonly Confused

5-5a Plurals and Possessives

5-5b Contractions and Possessives: you’re, your, he’s, his, it’s, its, they’re, their, there, who’s, whose

Chapter 6: “Lock Her Up” Is Right! Prepositions

What Is a Preposition?

6-1 Adjectives and Prepositions

6-2 Transitive Verbs and Prepositions

6-2a Transitive Verbs That Do Not Take a Preposition

6-2b Transitive Verbs That Take a Preposition

6-3 Two-word Verbs and Prepositions

6-3a Separable Two-word Verbs

6-3b Nonseparable Two-word Verbs

6-4 Commonly Confused

6-4a believe in, believe (that)

6-4b think about, think (that)

6-5 Modals and Prepositions

Chapter 7 He Wrote Me Beautiful Letters. We (fell or felt?) in Love : Frequently Confused

7-1 time, times, some time, sometimes

7-2 real, really, very

7-3 other, others, another

7-4 use, (to be) used to

PART TWO: Putting It All Together

Chapter 8: I’m President and They’re Not Sentence Structure:

What Is Sentence Structure?

8-1 Basics of Sentence Structure — Part 1

8-2 The Subject Position

8-2a Faulty Double Subjects

8-3 The Verb Position

8-4 There is, there are

8-5 Commonly Confused: there are, they are

8-6 Coordinating Conjunctions: Joining Ideas with and and or

8-7 Parallel Structure

8-8 The Three Basic Sentence Structures

8-8a The Simple Sentence

8-8b The Compound Sentence

8-8c The Complex Sentence

8-9 Subordinate Clauses and Word Order

8-9a The Position of Subordinate Clauses within a Sentence

8-9b Common Problems with the Coordinating Conjunction but

8-9c Using but and although in the Same Sentence

8-10 Run-on Sentences

8-11 Proportional Statements: the more ~, the less ~

8-12 Word Order and Adverbs

8-12a Adverbs of Time and Place

8-12b Adverbs of Frequency

8-13 Adding Emphasis

8-13a Using a Negative Adverb (never, rarely, etc.) to Begin a Sentence

8-13b Using Auxiliaries to Add Emphasis

Chapter 9: “Who’s Going to Pay for It?” (Answer: “Mexico!”) Questions

What Is a Question?

9-1 The Sentence Structure of a Question

9-2 Yes/No Questions

9-2a The be Verb Is Simple Present or Simple Past

9-2b The be Verb in All Other Tenses and Action Verbs

9-3 The Sentence Structure of a an Information Question

9-3a When the Main Verb Is a be Verb in Simple Present or Simple Past Tense

9-3b When the Main Verb Is a be Verb in a Progressive, Future or Perfect Tense; An Action Verb; a Modal

9-4 Negative Questions

9-5 Question That Begin with Who

9-5a When the Answer Is the Subject of the Verb

9-5b When the Answer Is the Object of the Verb or Preposition

Chapter 10: I Just Start Kissing Them! Gerunds and Infinitive Phrases

What Is a Gerund?

What Is an Infinitive Phrase?

10-1 Position of Gerunds and Infinitive Phrases in a Sentence

10-2 Gerunds as Object of the Preposition: [Object of the Preposition] + Gerund

10-3 Gerunds and Infinitives as Object of the Verb

10-3a Verb + Either Infinitive or Gerund

10-3c Verb + Infinitive Phrase or Gerund

10-3d Verb + [Noun or Pronoun] +Infinitive

10-3e Causative Verbs: make, have, let

10-3f Verbs of Perception

10-4 Adjective + Infinitive

10-5 Question Word + Infinitive

10-6 Statements of Purpose)

10-7 Reason/Intention

10-8 Statements Indicating How or By What Means

10-9 Special Expressions Requiring the ~ing Form

10-10 Turning a Subordinate Clause into a Gerund

Chapter 11: Rigged Passive and Active Voice:

What Is Passive Voice?

11-1 When Passive Voice Can Be Used

11-2 How to Form Passive Voice

11-3 Our Amazing Chart of Passive Voice for Each Verb Tense

11-4 Adjectives Derived from Passive Voice

11-5 So You Want to Be Evasive?

Chapter 12 I Would Rarely Leave the White House Conditional Sentences:

What Is a Conditional Sentence?

12-1 A Closer Look at the Three Types of Conditional Sentences

12-2 1st Conditional

12-3 2nd Conditional

12-3a Action Verbs

12-3b be Verbs

12-4 3rd Conditional

Chapter 13 He Said He Didn’t Meddle Indirect Speech and Thought

What Is Indirect Speech and Thought?

13-1 Components of Indirect Speech and Thought

13-1a Change of Punctuation

13-1b Change of Pronouns and Demonstrative Adjectives

13-1c Change of Verb Tenses

13-2 Sequence of Tenses (back-shift)

13-3 Sentence Structure of Indirect Speech

13-4 Our Very Beautiful Verb Tense Chart for Sequence of Tenses in Noun Clauses

13-5 say vs. tell

Chapter 14: A Total Witch Hunt!!! Punctuation and Capitalization:

What Is Punctuation? What Is Capitalization?

Punctuation and Its Connection to Sentence Structure

14-1 Commas with a List of Objects

14-2 Commas When Using a Coordinating Conjunction to Combine Sentences

14-3 Punctuating the Complex Sentence

14-4 Fragments: Introduction

14-4a Fragments and Compound Sentences: Fragments Beginning with and, but

14-4b Fragments and Subordinating Conjunctions: Fragments Beginning with when, because, before, after, although

14-4c Fragments in Conversational vs. Written English

14-5 Run-ons

14-5a however

14-6 Common Errors in the Use of Commas

14-7 Commas and Noun Clauses

14-8 Punctuating a Sentence That Contains an Adjective Clause

14-9 Capitalization

14-9a Proper Nouns

14-9b Quoted Speech

14-9c Indirect Speech

14-9d Names of Books, Short Stories, etc

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jane Hanser has combined her extensive background in teaching English and English as a Second Language and telling a story with this newest book, "Nobody Knows How to Write a Grammar Book Better Than Me: With Amazing Examples from Donald Trump."

Prior to publishing this book, she authored "Dogs Don't Look Both Ways," acclaimed with a BRAG Medallion for excellence in Literary Fiction. She was the film critic for "The Jewish Advocate" and a freelance film critic with reviews appearing in print and online newspapers "The Jewish Journal," "The Newton Tab," and the "Jewish News Service." Her poetry and essays have been published in numerous print and online journals such as "Poetica Magazine," "The Persimmon Tree", "Every Writer's Resource," and others. She has enjoyed writing haiku and posting it to her blog.

Her academic background is Spanish Language and Literature, and English Education (M.Ed. from Temple University Graduate School). She taught ESL and remedial writing for many years, in New York City, at City University of New York campuses and in Philadelphia. She also developed a popular educational software application, "Easy Writer: An Interactive and Audio Boo, " still used nationally and worldwide, that teaches writing and editing skills to learners of English.

Jane is involved with many and varied local community and municipal activities, such as bicycle and pedestrian safety, feeding the hungry, and literacy.

She and her husband Phil live in Newton, MA, with their four bicycles.