Book description
Improve your English grammar
You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by using proper English language and grammar. The ability to articulate and communicate effectively is a valuable asset in all aspects of life. From writing a research paper to giving a presentation at work or just holding a casual conversation with friends or family, strong verbal and written skills are necessities in everyday communication.
English Grammar Workbook For Dummies is the perfect solution for sharpening the tools in your grammar kit, with lessons and plenty of practice opportunities to help reinforce learning. Whether you need to brush up on the finer points of punctuation, need help making sense of those pesky parts of speech—or anything in between—this approachable guide makes it fast and easy.
• Find FREE quizzes for every chapter online
• Handle pronouns with grace
• Master plurals and possessives
• Improve your proofreading skills
Everyone benefits from using proper grammar and speech, and now you can too!
Table of contents
- Cover
- Introduction
- Part 1: Building a Firm Foundation: Grammar Basics
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Part 2: Clearing Up Confusing Grammar Points
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Chapter 4: Finding the Right Verb at the Right Time
- Using Past, Present, and Future Tense at the Right Times
- Putting Perfect Tenses in the Spotlight
- Speaking of the Past and Things That Never Change
- Romeo Lives! Writing about Literature and Art in Present Tense
- Hitting Curveballs: Irregular Forms
- Getting a Handle on Common Irregulars: Be and Have
- Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Verbs
- Answers to Problems on Verbs and Verb Tenses
- Chapter 5: Agreement: Choosing Singular or Plural Verbs and Pronouns
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Chapter 6: Solving Pronoun Case
- Meeting the Subject at Hand and the Object of My Affection
- To “Who” or To “Whom”? That Is the Question
- You Talkin’ to Me, or I? Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions
- Matching Possessive Pronouns to “-ing” Nouns
- Missing in Action: Choosing Pronouns for Implied Comparisons
- Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Pronoun Case
- Answers to Advanced Pronoun Problems
- Chapter 7: Little Words Packing a Lot of Power: Prepositions and Interjections
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Chapter 8: Writing Good or Well: Adjectives and Adverbs
- Identifying Adjectives and Adverbs
- The Right Place at the Right Time: Placing Adjectives and Adverbs
- How’s It Going? Choosing Between Good/ Well and Bad/Badly
- Mastering the Art of Articles
- For Better or Worse: Forming Comparisons
- Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Descriptors
- Answers to Adjective and Adverb Problems
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Chapter 4: Finding the Right Verb at the Right Time
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Part 3: Mastering Mechanics
- Chapter 9: A Hook That Can Catch You: Apostrophes
- Chapter 10: “Can I Quote You on That?” Quotation Marks
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Chapter 11: Pausing to Consider the Comma
- Keeping Lists in Order with Commas and Semicolons
- Directly Addressing the Listener or Reader
- Punctuating Dates and Addresses
- Placing Commas in Combined Sentences
- Inserting Extras with Commas: Introductions and Interruptions
- Setting Descriptions Apart
- Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Commas
- Answers to Comma Problems
- Chapter 12: Handling Dashes, Hyphens, and Colons
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Chapter 13: Hitting the Big Time: Capital Letters
- Paying Respect to People’s Names and Titles
- Capitalizing the Right Time and Place
- Working with Business and School Terms
- Capitalizing Titles of Literary and Media Works
- Managing Capital Letters in Abbreviations
- Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Capital Letters
- Answers to Capitalization Problems
- Chapter 14: Writing for Electronic Media
- Part 4: Going Above and Beyond: The Finer Points of Grammar and Style
- Appendix: Grabbing Grammar Goofs
- About the Author
- Connect with Dummies
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: English Grammar Workbook For Dummies, with Online Practice, 3rd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2018
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9781119455394
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