English Grammar Workbook For Dummies, UK Edition
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English Grammar Workbook For Dummies, UK Edition is grammar First Aid for anyone wanting to perfect their English and develop the practical skills needed to write and speak correctly. Each chapter focuses on key grammatical principles, with easy-to-follow theory and examples as well as practice questions and explanations. From verbs, prepositions and tenses, to style, expressions and tricky word traps, this hands-on workbook is essential for both beginners looking to learn and practise the basics of English grammar, and those who want to brush up skills they already have - quickly, easily, and with confidence.
English Grammar Workbook For Dummies, UK Edition covers: Part I: Laying the Groundwork: 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 PronounsChapter 4: Finishing What You Start: Writing Complete Sentences Part II: Mastering Mechanics Chapter 5: Exercising Comma SenseChapter 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 MarksChapter 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 SentenceChapter 12: Travelling 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 AdverbsChapter 15: Going on Location: Placing Descriptions CorrectlyChapter 16: For Better or Worse: Forming Comparisons Chapter 17: Apples and Oranges: Improper Comparisons Part V: Writing with Style Chapter 18: Keeping Your Balance Chapter 19: Spicing Up and Trimming Down Your Sentences Chapter 20: Steering Clear of Tricky Word Traps Part VI: The Part of TensChapter 21: Ten Over-correctionsChapter 22: Ten Errors to Avoid at All Cost.
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- Höfundur: Nuala O'Sullivan
- Útgáfa:1
- Útgáfudagur: 2010-03-18
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- Format:Page Fidelity
- ISBN 13: 9780470665572
- Print ISBN: 9780470688304
- ISBN 10: 0470665572
Efnisyfirlit
- English Grammar Workbook For Dummies
- About the Authors
- Dedication
- Authors’ Acknowledgments
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- How This Book Is Organised
- Part I: Laying the Foundations: Grammar Basics
- Part II: Mastering Mechanics
- Part III: The Pickier Points of Correct Verb and Pronoun Use
- Part IV: All You Need to Know about Descriptions and Comparisons
- Part V: Writing with Style
- Part VI: The Part of Tens
- Icons Used in This Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part I Laying the Foundations: Grammar Basics
- Chapter 1 Placing the Proper Verb in the Proper Place
- Choosing Past, Present or Future
- Shining a Light on Perfect Tenses
- Navigating the Irregular Forms
- Mastering the Two Most Common Irregulars: Be and Have
- Getting By with a Little Help from Some Other Verbs
- Extra Practice with Verbs
- Answers to Problems on Verbs and Verb Tenses
- Chapter 2 Matchmaker, Make Me a Match: Pairing Subjects and Verbs Correctly
- Coping When One Just Isn’t Enough: Plural Nouns
- Bringing Together Subjects and Verbs
- Taming the Terrible Twos: Difficult Subjects to Match with Verbs
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice with Hitching Subjects and Verbs
- Answers to Subject and Verb Pairing Problems
- Chapter 3 Who Is She, and What Is It? The Lowdown on Pronouns
- Separating Singular and Plural Pronouns
- Taking Possession of the Right Pronoun
- Discovering that it’s All in the Details: Possessives versus Contractions
- Avoiding Double Meanings
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice with Basic Pronouns
- Answers to Pronoun Problems
- Chapter 4 Finishing What You Start: Writing Complete Sentences
- Seeking Out the Subject/Verb Pair
- Checking for Complete Thoughts
- Going for Flow: Joining Sentences Correctly
- Finishing with Flair: Choosing Endmarks
- Complete or Incomplete? That Is the Question
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice with Complete Sentences
- Answers to Complete Sentence Problems
- Chapter 1 Placing the Proper Verb in the Proper Place
- Chapter 5 Exercising Comma Sense
- Making a List and Checking It Twice
- You Talkin’ to Me? Direct Address
- Dating and Addressing
- Introducing (and Interrupting) with the Comma
- Setting Off Descriptions
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice with Commas
- Answers to Comma Problems
- Chapter 6 Made You Look! Punctuation Marks That Demand Attention
- Connectors and Dividers: Hyphens
- Just Dashing Through
- Sorting Out Semicolons
- Placing Colons
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice with Hyphens, Dashes, Colons, and Semicolons
- Answers to Punctuation Problems
- Chapter 7 One Small Mark, a Whole New Meaning: Apostrophes
- Putting Words on a Diet: Contractions
- Taking Possession
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice with Apostrophes
- Answers to Apostrophe Problems
- Chapter 8 ‘Let Me Speak!’ Quotation Marks
- Giving Written Words a Voice: Punctuating Direct Quotations
- Embedding One Quotation inside Another
- Punctuating Titles
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice with Quotation Marks
- Answers to Quotation Problems
- Chapter 9 Hitting the Big Time: Capital Letters
- Bowing to Convention and Etiquette: People’s Names and Titles
- Entering the Worlds of Business and Education
- Capitalising Titles of Literary and Media Works
- Placing Geographical Capitals
- Tackling Abbreviations: AM or p.m.?
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice with Capital Letters
- Answers to Capitalisation Problems
- Chapter 10 The Case of It (And Other Pronouns)
- Meeting the Subject at Hand and the Object of My Affection
- Choosing Between ‘Who’ and ‘Whom’
- Linking Up with Pronounsin ‘To Be’ Sentences
- Discovering Whether You’re Talking to Meor I: Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions
- Matching Possessive Pronounsto ‘-ing’ Nouns
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice with Pronoun Case
- Answers to Pronoun Case Problems
- Chapter 11 Choosing the Best Pronoun for a Tricky Sentence
- Nodding in Agreement: Pronouns and Possessives Come Head to Head
- Tackling Pronouns for Companies and Organisations
- Decoding Who, That and Which
- Getting Down to Specifics: Avoiding Improper Pronoun References
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice with Tricky Pronoun Situations
- Answers to Advanced Pronoun Problems
- Chapter 12 Travelling in Time: Tricky Verb Tense Situations
- Telling Tales of the Past
- Communicating When You’re Stuck in the Present
- Tackling the Timeline: Verbals to the Rescue
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice with Verb Tenses
- Answers to Advanced Verb Tense Problems
- Chapter 13 Getting Your Verbs in the Right Mood
- Stating the Obvious: Indicative Mood
- Taking Command: Imperative Mood
- Telling Lies or Being Passive: Subjunctive Mood
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice with Moody Verbs
- Answers to Verb Mood Problems
- Chapter 14 Writing Good or Well: Adjectives, Adverbs and Articles
- Distinguishing Between Adjectives and Adverbs
- Asking How It’s Going: Choosing Between Good/Well and Bad/Badly
- Mastering the Art of Articles
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice with Descriptors
- Answers to Adjective and Adverb Problems
- Chapter 15 Going on Location: Placing Descriptions Correctly
- Situating ‘Even’, ‘Only’ and Similar Words: Little Words Mean a Lot
- Avoiding Misplaced Descriptions: It Must Be Here Somewhere!
- Hanging off a Cliff: Dangling Descriptions
- Being Dazed and Confused: Vague Descriptions
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice Placing Descriptions
- Answers to Description Placement Problems
- Chapter 16 Forming Comparisons: For Better or Worse
- Visiting the -ER (and the -EST): Creating Comparisons
- Going from Bad to Worse (and Good to Better): Irregular Comparisons
- Using Words That Are Incomparable (Like You!)
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice with Bad Comparisons
- Answers to Comparison Problems
- Chapter 17 Apples and Oranges: Improper Comparisons
- Ensuring That You Complete Comparisons: No One Likes to Feel Incomplete
- Being Smarter Than Yourself: Illogical Comparisons
- Doubling Up Trouble: A Sentence Containing More Than One Comparison
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice with Improper Comparisons
- Answers to Complicated Comparison Problems
- Chapter 18 Practising Parallel Structure
- Understanding When Geometry Invades English: Parallelism Basics
- Avoiding Unnecessary Shifts in Tense, Person and Voice
- Matchmaking – The Basics: Either/Or, Not Only/But Also and Similar Pairs
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice with Parallels
- Answers to Parallelism Problems
- Chapter 19 Spicing Up and Trimming Down Your Sentences
- Beginning with a Bang: Adding Introductory Elements
- Smoothing Out Choppy Sentences
- Being Awkward but Interesting: Reversed Sentence Patterns
- Shedding and Eliminating Redundancy
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice Honing Your Sentences
- Answers to Sentence Improvement Problems
- Chapter 20 Steering Clear of Tricky Word Traps
- Separating Almost-Twins: Commonly Confused Words
- Comparing Quantities without Numbers
- Bursting Your Bubble: Sorry, but Some Common Expressions Are Wrong
- Tackling Verbs That Give You a Headache
- Combining Rightfully Independent Words
- Brain Strain: Extra Practice with Tricky Words
- Answers to Tricky Word Problems
- Chapter 21 Ten Overcorrections
- Substituting ‘Whom’ for ‘Who’
- Inserting Unnecessary ‘Hads’
- Repeating Again and Again
- Sending ‘I’ to Do a ‘Me’ Job
- Speaking or Writing Passively
- Making Sentence Structure Too Complicated
- Letting Descriptions Dangle
- Becoming Allergic to ‘They’ and ‘Their’
- Being Semi-Attached to Semicolons
- Not Knowing When Enough Is Enough
- Chapter 22 Ten Errors to Avoid at All Costs
- Writing Incomplete Sentences
- Letting Sentences Run On and On
- Forgetting to Capitalise ‘I’
- Being Stingy with Quotation Marks
- Using Pronouns Incorrectly
- Placing New Words in the Wrong Context
- Letting Slang Seep into Your Speech
- Forgetting to Proofread
- Relying on Computer Checks for Grammar and Spelling
- Repeating Yourself
- Exercise One
- Exercise Two
- Exercise Three
- Exercise Four
- Answers to Exercise One
- Answers to Exercise Two
- Answers to Exercise Three
- Answers to Exercise Four
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