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Get the last word on English grammar Grasping the intricacies of the English language doesn't need to be tricky, and this down-to-earth guide breaks everything down in ways that make sense—Revealing rules, tips, and tricks to eliminate confusion and gain clarity, English Grammar For Dummies gives you everything you need to communicate with confidence! Good grammar lays the foundation for speaking and writing clearly.
This easy-to-follow book will help you become a more articulate, effective communicator. Covering everything from the building blocks of a sentence to those pesky rules of punctuation, it offers the practical guidance you need to communicate in a way that would make any English teacher proud. Improve your speaking skills Clearly compose written communications Get the latest techniques for continuous improvement Write a winning college entrance exam or compelling business presentation Stop worrying about the grammar police and become more confident with your words!.
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- Höfundur: Geraldine Woods
- Útgáfa:3
- Útgáfudagur: 2017-04-12
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- Format:ePub
- ISBN 13: 9781119376613
- Print ISBN: 9781119376590
- ISBN 10: 1119376610
Efnisyfirlit
- Cover
- Introduction
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1: Building a Firm Foundation: The Parts of the Sentence
- Chapter 1: Using the Right Words at the Right Time
- What This Year’s Sentence Is Wearing: Understanding Grammar and Style
- Distinguishing Between the Three Englishes
- Thumbing Your Way to Better Grammar
- Probing the Limits of Grammar-Checking Software
- What's Your Problem? Solutions to Your Grammar Gremlins
- Chapter 2: Verbs: The Heart of the Sentence
- Expressing Meaning with Verbs
- Meeting the Families: Linking and Action Verbs
- Calling the Help Line for Verbs
- Pop the Question: Locating the Verb
- Chapter 3: Who’s Doing What? How to Find the Subject
- Who’s Driving the Truck? Why the Subject Is Important
- Pop the Question: Locating the Subject–Verb Pairs
- What’s a Nice Subject Like You Doing in a Place Like This? Unusual Word Order
- Find That Subject! Detecting You-Understood
- Searching for the Subject in Questions
- Don’t Get Faked Out: Avoiding Fake Verbs and Subjects
- Subjects Aren’t Just a Singular Sensation: Forming the Plural of Nouns
- Chapter 4: When All Is Said and Done: Complete Sentences
- Completing Sentences: The Essential Subjects and Verbs
- Complete Thoughts, Complete Sentences
- Joining Forces: Combining Sentences Correctly
- Boss and Employee: Joining Ideas of Unequal Ranks
- Choosing Subordinate Conjunctions
- Using Pronouns to Combine Sentences
- Understanding Fragments
- Reaching the End of the Line: Endmarks
- Chapter 5: Handling Complements
- Getting a Piece of the Action: Complements for Action Verbs
- Completing the Equation: Subject Complements
- Pop the Question: Locating the Complement
- Pop the Question: Finding the Indirect Object
- Pronouns as Objects and Subject Complements
- Chapter 1: Using the Right Words at the Right Time
- Chapter 6: Relax! Understanding Verb Tense
- Simplifying Matters: The Simple Tenses
- Using the Simple Tenses Correctly
- Not Picture Perfect: Understanding the Perfect Tenses
- Using the Perfect Tenses Correctly
- Reporting Information: Verbs Tell the Story
- The Rebels: Dealing with Irregular Verbs
- Chapter 7: Nodding Your Head: All About Agreement
- Agreeing Not to Disagree
- Making Subjects and Verbs Agree
- Matching Subjects and Verbs in Some Tricky Situations
- Reaching an Agreement with Pronouns
- Agreeing in Tricky Situations
- Dealing Sensitively with Pronoun Gender
- Chapter 8: Pronouns and Their Cases
- Me Like Tarzan: Choosing Subject Pronouns
- Using Pronouns as Direct and Indirect Objects
- Are You Talking to I? Prepositions and Pronouns
- Attaching Objects to Verbals
- Knowing the Difference Between Who and Whom
- Pronouns of Possession: No Exorcist Needed
- Dealing with Pronouns and “-Ing” Nouns
- Chapter 9: Small Words, Big Trouble: Prepositions
- Proposing Relationships: Prepositions
- The Objects of My Affection: Prepositional Phrases and Their Objects
- A Good Part of Speech to End a Sentence With?
- Chapter 10: Two Real Really Good Parts of Speech: Adjectives and Adverbs
- Clarifying Meaning with Descriptions
- Adding Adjectives
- Stalking the Common Adverb
- Choosing Between Adjectives and Adverbs
- Creating Comparisons with Adjectives and Adverbs
- Breaking the Rules: Irregular Comparisons
- Chapter 11: Punctuation Law That Should Be Repealed: Apostrophes
- The Pen of My Aunt or My Aunt’s Pen? Using Apostrophes to Show Possession
- Possession with Proper Nouns
- Ownership with Hyphenated Words
- Possessive Nouns That End in S
- Common Apostrophe Errors with Pronouns
- Shortened Words for Busy People: Contractions
- You Coulda Made a Contraction Mistake
- Chapter 12: Quotations: More Rules Than the Internal Revenue Service
- And I Quote
- Punctuating Quotations
- Who Said That? Identifying Speaker Changes
- Germ-Free Quotations: Using Sanitizing Quotation Marks
- Punctuating Titles: When to Use Quotation Marks
- Chapter 13: The Pause That Refreshes: Commas
- Distinguishing Items: Commas in Series
- Using “Comma Sense” to Add Information to Your Sentence
- You Talkin’ to Me? Direct Address
- Using Commas in Addresses and Dates
- Getting Started: The Introductory Comma
- Punctuating Independently
- Chapter 14: Useful Little Marks: Dashes, Hyphens, and Colons
- Inserting Information with Dashes
- H-y-p-h-e-n-a-t-i-n-g Made Easy
- Creating a Stopping Point: Colons
- Chapter 15: CAPITAL LETTERS
- Knowing What’s Up with Uppercase
- Capitalizing (or Not) References to People
- Capitalizing Geography: Directions, Places, and Languages
- Marking Seasons and Other Times
- Schooling: Courses, Years, and Subjects
- Writing Capitals in Titles
- Concerning Historic Capitals: Events and Eras
- ?4U: Cn U AbbreV8?
- Chapter 16: Rules of Thumb: Adapting Grammar to Electronic Media
- Thumb Wrestling with Grammar: Texts, Tweets, and Instant Messages
- Emailing Your Way to Good Grammar
- Handling Grammar on the Internet
- PowerPoint to the People
- Chapter 17: Fine-Tuning Verbs
- Giving Voice to Verbs
- Actively Seeking a Better Voice
- Getting Your Verbs in the Proper Mood
- Adding Meaning with Strong Verbs
- Chapter 18: No Santas but Plenty of Clauses
- Understanding the Basics of Clause and Effect
- Chapter 19: Spicing Up Sentence Patterns
- Getting Verbal
- Choosing the Correct Tense
- Sprucing Up Boring Sentences with Clauses and Verbals
- Mixing It Up: Changing Sentence Patterns
- Chapter 20: Staying on Track: Parallelism
- Constructing Balanced Sentences
- Shifting Grammar into Gear: Avoiding Stalled Sentences
- Seeing Double: Conjunction Pairs
- Avoiding Lopsided Comparisons
- Chapter 21: Meaning What You Say: Clarity
- On Location: Placing Descriptions Correctly
- Finding the Subject When Words Are Missing from the Sentence
- Comparatively Speaking: Incomplete and Illogical Comparisons
- Steering Clear of Vague Pronouns
- Chapter 22: Grammar Devils
- Deleting Double Negatives
- Scoring D Minus
- Distinguishing Between Word Twins and Triplets
- Close, But Not Close Enough: Words That Resemble Each Other
- Roaming Descriptions
- Pairs of Trouble: Complicated Verbs
- Two Not for the Price of One
- Four for the Road: Other Common Errors
- Chapter 23: Ten Ways Two to Improve Your Proofreading
- Reread
- Wait a While
- Read It Aloud
- Check the Commas
- Swap with a Friend
- Let the Computer Program Help
- Check the Verbs
- Check the Pronouns
- Know Your Typing Style
- The Usual Suspects
- Chapter 24: Relax Already! Grammar Rules You Can Stop Worrying About
- To Not Split an Infinitive
- A Good Part of Speech to End a Sentence With
- What Can or May I Do?
- Formal Greetings in Emails and Texts
- Addresses and Dates in Electronic Communication
- Periods and Commas in Some Electronic Messages
- The Jury Are Out on This Rule
- That? Who?
- Who/Whom Is Correct?
- Hopefully This Rule Has Faded
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- Útgáfuár : 2017
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