English Grammar Workbook For Dummies

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John Wiley & Sons, 8 mar 2011 - 312
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 that's what this workbook is all about. Honing speaking and writing skills through continued practice translates into everyday situations, such as writing papers, giving presentations, and communicating effectively in the workplace or classroom.

In English Grammar Workbook For Dummies you'll 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, you'll be speaking correctly, writing confidently, and getting the recognition you deserve at work or at school.

  • Hundreds of practice exercises and helpful explanations
  • Explanations mirror teaching methods and classroom protocols
  • Focused, modular content presented in step-by-step lessons

English Grammar Workbook For Dummies will empower you to structure sentences correctly, make subject and verbs agree, and use tricky punctuation marks such as commas, semicolons, and apostrophes without fear.

 

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Introduction
1
Finding the Right Verb at the Right Time
7
Got a Match? Pairing Subjects and Verbs Correctly
23
Who Is She and What Is It? Pronoun Basics
39
Having It All Writing Complete Sentences
53
Mastering Mechanics
71
A Hook That Can Catch You Apostrophes
87
Let Me Speak Quotation Marks
97
Writing for Electronic Media
165
Upping the Interest Describing and Comparing
175
Going on Location Placing Descriptions Correctly
187
For Better or Worse Forming Comparisons
201
Improving Your Writing Style
219
The Writing Diet Adding Spice and Cutting Fat from Your Sentences
237
Steering Clear of Tricky Word Traps
247
Ten Overcorrections
261

Hitting the Big Time Capital Letters
107
Applying Proper Grammar in Tricky Situations
117
Tensing Up Choosing the Right Verb for Tricky Sentences
143
Are You and Your Verbs in the Right Mood?
157
Grabbing Grammar Goofs
269
Index
299
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Geraldine Woods is a high school English teacher and author of more than 40 books.

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