Overview

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. Open it and 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. 100s of Problems! Review grammar rules and exceptions Build grammar skills, from sentence mechanics to stylistic fine points Convey your ideas clearly and persuasively Speak and write with flair and confidence

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Author:   Geraldine Woods
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 21.30cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 27.70cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9780764599323

ISBN 10:   0764599321
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   08 May 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction. Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics. Chapter 1: Placing the Proper Verb in the Proper Place. Chapter 2: Matchmaker, Make Me a Match: Pairing Subjects and Verbs Correctly. Chapter 3: Who Is She, and What Is It? The Lowdown on Pronouns. Chapter4: Finishing What You Start: Writing Complete Sentences. Part II: Mastering Mechanics. Chapter 5: Exercising Comma Sense. Chapter 6: Made You Look! Punctuation Marks That Demand Attention. Chapter 7: One Small Mark, a Whole New Meaning: Apostrophes. Chapter 8: Let Me Speak! Quotation Marks. Chapter 9: Hitting the Big Time: Capital Letters. Part III: The Pickier Points of Correct Verb and Pronoun Use. Chapter 10: The Case Of It (And Other Pronouns). Chapter 11: Choosing the Best Pronoun for a Tricky Sentence. Chapter 12: Traveling in Time: Tricky Verb-Tense Situations. Chapter 13: Are You and Your Verbs in the Right Mood? Part IV: All You Need to Know about Descriptions and Comparisons. Chapter 14: Writing Good or Well: Adjectives and Adverbs. Chapter 15: Going on Location: Placing Descriptions Correctly. Chapter 16: For Better or Worse: Forming Comparisons. Chapter 17: Appleas and Oranges: I,proper Comparisons. Part V: Writing with Style. Chapter 18: Practicing Parallel Structure. Chapter 19: Spicing Up and Trimming Down Your Sentences. Chapter 20: Steering Clear of Tricky Word Traps. Part VI: The Part of Tens. Chapter 21: Then Overcorrections. Chapter 22: Ten Errors to Avoid at All Cost. Appendix: Grabbing Grammar Goofs. Index.

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Geraldine Woods began her education when teachers still supplied ink wells to their students. She credits her 35-year career as an English teacher to a set of ultra-strict nuns armed with thick grammar books. She lives in New York City, where with great difficulty she refrains from correcting signs containing messages such as ""Bagel's for sale."" She is the author of more than 40 books, including English Grammar For Dummies, Research Papers For Dummies, College Admission Essays For Dummies, and The SAT I Reasoning Test For Dummies.

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