English Grammar for Dummies

Name: English Grammar for Dummies
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ISBN: 9780764553226

ISBN-10: 0764553224

ISBN-13: 9780764553226

Edition: 2001

Authors: Geraldine Woods

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A few years ago, a magazine sponsored a contest for the comment most likely to end a conversation. The winning entry? "I teach English grammar." Just throw that line out at a party; everyone around you will clam up or start saying "whom." Why does grammar make everyone so nervous? Probably because English teachers, for decades - no, for centuries - have been making a big deal out of grammar in classrooms, diagramming sentences and drilling the parts of speech, clauses, and verbals into students until they beg for mercy. Happily, you don't have to learn all those technical terms of English grammar - and you certainly don't have to diagram sentences - in order to speak and write correct…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Introduction



The Parts of Speech and Parts of the Sentence



I Already Know How to Talk


Why Should I Study Grammar?



Verbs: The Heart of the Sentence



Relax! Understanding Verb Tense



Who's Doing What? How to Find the Subject



Having It All: The Complete Sentence



Handling Complements



Getting Hitched: Marrying Sentences



Do You Feel Bad or Badly? The Lowdown on Adjectives and Adverbs



Prepositions and Interjections and Articles, Oh My! Other Parts of Speech



Everyone Brought Their Homework: Pronoun Errors



Just Nod Your Head: About Agreement



No Garage, but Plenty of Mechanics



Punctuation Law That Should Be Repealed: Apostrophes



Quotations: More Rules Than the Internal Revenue Service



The Pause That Refreshes: Commas



Adding Information: Semicolons, Dashes, and Colons



CAPITAL LETTERS



Polishing Without Wax -- The Finer Points of Grammar



Pronouns and Their Cases



Fine-tuning Verbs



Saying What You Want to Say: Descriptive Words and Phrases



Good, Better, Best: Comparisons



Parallels Without the Lines



Rules Even Your Great-Aunt's Grammar Teacher Didn't Know



The Last Word on Verbs



The Last Word on Pronouns



The Last Word on Sentence Structure



The Last Word on Punctuation



The Part of Tens



Ten Ways Two to Improve Your Proofreading



Ten Ways to Learn Better Grammar


Index


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