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English Grammar Workbook For Dummies Geraldine Woods

English Grammar Workbook For Dummies von Geraldine Woods

English Grammar Workbook For Dummies Geraldine Woods


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Zusammenfassung

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.

English Grammar Workbook For Dummies Zusammenfassung

English Grammar Workbook For Dummies Geraldine Woods

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.

Über Geraldine Woods

Geraldine Woods is a high school English teacher and author of more than 40 books.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1 Part I: Building a Firm Foundation: Grammar Basics 5 Chapter 1: Finding the Right Verb at the Right Time 7 Chapter 2: Got a Match? Pairing Subjects and Verbs Correctly 23 Chapter 3: Who Is She, and What Is It? Pronoun Basics 39 Chapter 4: Having It All: Writing Complete Sentences 53 Part II: Mastering Mechanics 71 Chapter 5: Pausing to Consider the Comma 73 Chapter 6: A Hook That Can Catch You: Apostrophes 87 Chapter 7: Let Me Speak! Quotation Marks 97 Chapter 8: Hitting the Big Time: Capital Letters 107 Part III: Applying Proper Grammar in Tricky Situations 117 Chapter 9: Choosing the Best Pronoun: Case, Number, and Clarity 119 Chapter 10: Tensing Up: Choosing the Right Verb for Tricky Sentences 143 Chapter 11: Are You and Your Verbs in the Right Mood? 157 Chapter 12: Writing for Electronic Media 165 Part IV: Upping the Interest: Describing and Comparing 175 Chapter 13: Writing Good or Well: Adjectives and Adverbs 177 Chapter 14: Going on Location: Placing Descriptions Correctly 187 Chapter 15: For Better or Worse: Forming Comparisons 201 Part V: Improving Your Writing Style 219 Chapter 16: Staying on Track: Parallel Writing 221 Chapter 17: The Writing Diet: Adding Spice and Cutting Fat from Your Sentences 237 Chapter 18: Steering Clear of Tricky Word Traps 247 Part VI: The Part of Tens 259 Chapter 19: Ten Overcorrections 261 Chapter 20: Ten Errors to Avoid at All Costs 265 Appendix: Grabbing Grammar Goofs 269 Index 299

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GOR004737204
9780470930700
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English Grammar Workbook For Dummies Geraldine Woods
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
20110401
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