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English grammar for dummies / by Geraldine Woods

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: ... for dummies | --for dummiesPublication details: New York : Wiley Publishing, 2001 Description: xxii, 360 p.: il. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0764553224
  • 9780764553226
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PE 1112  W894e 2001
Contents:
Introduction. Part I: The Parts of Speech and Parts of the Sentence. Chapter 1: I Already Know How to Talk. Why Should I Study Grammar? Chapter 2: Verbs: The Heart of the Sentence. Chapter 3: Relax! Understanding Verb Tense. Chapter 4: Who's Doing What? How to Find the Subject. Chapter 5: Having It All: The Complete Sentence. Chapter 6: Handling Complements.Chapter 7: Getting Hitched: Marrying Sentences. Chapter 8: Do You Feel Bad or Badly? The Lowdown on Adjectives and Adverbs. Chapter 9: Prepositions and Interjections and Articles, Oh My! Other Parts of Speech. Chapter 10: Everyone Brought Their Homework: Pronoun Errors. Chapter 11: Just Nod Your Head: About Agreement. Part III: No Garage, but Plenty of Mechanics. Chapter 12: Punctuation Law That Should Be Repealed: Apostrophes. Chapter 13: Quotations: More Rules Than the Internal Revenue Service. Chapter 14: The Pause That Refreshes: Commas. Chapter 15: Adding Information: Semicolons, Dashes, and Colons. Chapter 16: CAPITAL LETTERS. Part IV: Polishing Without Wax -- The Finer Points of Grammar. Chapter 17: Pronouns and Their Cases. Chapter 18: Fine-tuning Verbs. Chapter 19: Saying What You Want to Say: Descriptive Words and Phrases. Chapter 20: Good, Better, Best: Comparisons. Chapter 21: Parallels Without the Lines. Part V: Rules Even Your Great-Aunt's Grammar Teacher Didn't Know. Chapter 22: The Last Word on Verbs. Chapter 23: The Last Word on Pronouns. Chapter 24: The Last Word on Sentence Structure. Chapter 25: The Last Word on Punctuation. Part VI: The Part of Tens. Chapter 26: Ten Ways Two to Improve Your Proofreading. Chapter 27: Ten Ways to Learn Better Grammar. Index. Book Registration Information Back of Book.
Summary: A few years ago, a magazine sponsored a contest for the comment most likely to end a conversation. The winning entry? "I teach English grammar. " Just throw that line out at a party; everyone around you will clam up or start saying "whom.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PE 1112 W894e 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000022261

Includes index

Introduction. Part I: The Parts of Speech and Parts of the Sentence. Chapter 1: I Already Know How to Talk. Why Should I Study Grammar? Chapter 2: Verbs: The Heart of the Sentence. Chapter 3: Relax! Understanding Verb Tense. Chapter 4: Who's Doing What? How to Find the Subject. Chapter 5: Having It All: The Complete Sentence. Chapter 6: Handling Complements.Chapter 7: Getting Hitched: Marrying Sentences. Chapter 8: Do You Feel Bad or Badly? The Lowdown on Adjectives and Adverbs. Chapter 9: Prepositions and Interjections and Articles, Oh My! Other Parts of Speech. Chapter 10: Everyone Brought Their Homework: Pronoun Errors. Chapter 11: Just Nod Your Head: About Agreement. Part III: No Garage, but Plenty of Mechanics. Chapter 12: Punctuation Law That Should Be Repealed: Apostrophes. Chapter 13: Quotations: More Rules Than the Internal Revenue Service. Chapter 14: The Pause That Refreshes: Commas. Chapter 15: Adding Information: Semicolons, Dashes, and Colons. Chapter 16: CAPITAL LETTERS. Part IV: Polishing Without Wax -- The Finer Points of Grammar. Chapter 17: Pronouns and Their Cases. Chapter 18: Fine-tuning Verbs. Chapter 19: Saying What You Want to Say: Descriptive Words and Phrases. Chapter 20: Good, Better, Best: Comparisons. Chapter 21: Parallels Without the Lines. Part V: Rules Even Your Great-Aunt's Grammar Teacher Didn't Know. Chapter 22: The Last Word on Verbs. Chapter 23: The Last Word on Pronouns. Chapter 24: The Last Word on Sentence Structure. Chapter 25: The Last Word on Punctuation. Part VI: The Part of Tens. Chapter 26: Ten Ways Two to Improve Your Proofreading. Chapter 27: Ten Ways to Learn Better Grammar. Index. Book Registration Information Back of Book.

A few years ago, a magazine sponsored a contest for the comment most likely to end a conversation. The winning entry? "I teach English grammar. " Just throw that line out at a party; everyone around you will clam up or start saying "whom.

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