Scholastic Guide: Checking Your Grammar

Name: Scholastic Guide: Checking Your Grammar
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ISBN: 9780590494557

ISBN-10: 0590494554

ISBN-13: 9780590494557

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Authors: Marvin Terban, Peter Spacek

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List price: $8.99
Publisher: Scholastic, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 6.31" wide x 8.46" long x 0.28" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Marvin Terban's popular wordplay books for Clarion include IN A PICKLE AND OTHER FUNNY IDIOMS and TO HOT TO HOOT: FUNNY PALINDROME RIDDLES. He lives in New York City.



Introduction: Twenty Common Grammatical Errors and How to Fix Them



Building Sentences


Section Table of Contents


A Crash Course in Sentence-building


More About Subjects and Predicates


Four Kinds of Sentences and What They Do


Three Ways to Build a Sentence


When a Group of Words is Not a Sentence


Making Nouns and Verbs Work Together: Subject-Verb Agreement



Parts of Speech


Section Table of Contents


Nouns


What is a noun?


Kinds of Nouns


Eight Uses of Nouns


Pronouns


What is a pronoun?


Personal Pronouns


Five Other Kinds of Pronouns


Verbs


What is a verb?


Main Verbs and Helping Verbs


Verb Tenses


The Three Principal Parts of Verbs


The Verb "To Be" and Other Linking Verbs


Adjectives


What is an adjective?


Three Kinds of Adjectives


Comparison of Adjectives


Where an Adjective Goes in a Sentence


Adverbs


What is an adverb?


When Adverbs Describe Verbs


When Adverbs Describe Adjectives


When Adverbs Describe Other Adverbs


Comparison of Adverbs


Prepositions


What is a preposition?


Four Things Prepositions Tell


Compound Prepositions


Prepositional Phrases


Conjunctions


What is a conjunction?


Kinds of Conjunctions


Interjections


What is an interjection?



Style and Usage


Section Table of Contents


Punctuation Rules Everybody Needs


When and Why to CAPITALIZE a Word


Good Spelling Rules to Use Every Day


Preventing Double Negatives


Avoiding Sexist Language


Homonyms: Words That Sound Alike but Are Spelled Differently


100 Easily Confused and Misused Words


Contractions: Shrinking Words


Building Compound Words


Idioms: When Words Mean More Than They Say


Initials, Acronyms, and Abbreviations


Index