English Grammar Workbook for Dummies

Name: English Grammar Workbook for Dummies
Price: 5.7 USD
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ISBN: 9780764599323

ISBN-10: 0764599321

ISBN-13: 9780764599323

Edition: 2006

Authors: Geraldine Woods

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Get some good grammar practice - and start speaking and writing well! Good grammar is important, whether you want to advance your career, boost your GPA, or increase your SAT or ACT score. Practice is the key to improving your grammar skills, and that2s what this workbook is all about. Open it and you2ll find hundreds of fun problems to help build your grammar muscles. Just turn to a topic you need help with - from punctuation and pronouns to possessives and parallel structure - and get out your pencil. With just a little practice every day, you2ll be speaking correctly, writing confidently, and getting the recognition you deserve at work or at school. 100s of Problems! Review…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/8/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction


Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics


Placing the Proper Verb in the Proper Place


Matchmaker , Make Me a Match: Pairing Subjects and Verbs Correctly


Who Is She, and What Is It? The Lowdown on Pronouns


Finishing What You Start: Writing Complete Sentences


Mastering Mechanics


Exercising Comma Sense


Made You Look! Punctuation Marks That Demand Attention


One Small Mark, a Whole New Meaning: Apostrophes


"Let Me Speak!" Quotation Marks


Hitting the Big Time: Capital Letters


The Pickier Points of Correct Verb and Pronoun Use


The Case Of It (And Other Pronouns)


Choosing the Best Pronoun for a Tricky Sentence


Traveling in Time: Tricky Verb-Tense Situations


Are You and Your Verbs in the Right Mood?


All You Need to Know about Descriptions and Comparisons


Writing Good or Well: Adjectives and Adverbs


Going on Location: Placing Descriptions Correctly


For Better or Worse: Forming Comparisons


Appleas and Oranges: I,proper Comparisons


Writing with Style


Practicing Parallel Structure


Spicing Up and Trimming Down Your Sentences


Steering Clear of Tricky Word Traps


The Part of Tens


Then Overcorrections


Ten Errors to Avoid at All Cost


Grabbing Grammar Goofs


Index