English Grammar For Dummies

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John Wiley & Sons, May 1, 2017 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 416 pages
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!

 

Contents

Will you accompany me to the dining room? Formal English
12
xii
15
CHAPTER
17
xiv
18
Meaning CHAPTER
21
Completing linkingverb sentences correctly
22
Locating the Verb
29
viii
35
Introducing lists
221
CHAPTER
225
Sorting out titles
227
CHAPTER
236
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CHAPTER
257
Adding Meaning with Strong Verbs
265
18
269

Table of Contents
38
Watching out for here and there and other fake subjects
41
CHAPTER
45
CHAPTER
47
Connecting with coordinate conjunctions
53
Understanding Fragments
59
Handling Complements
65
CHAPTER
77
Dealing with Irregular Verbs
96
All About Agreement
103
Reaching an Agreement with Pronouns
110
Alone or with partners
116
CHAPTER
122
CHAPTER
133
Prepositions
139
Adjectives describing nouns
149
Adjectives and adverbs that look the same
159
CHAPTER
169
Conventional Wisdom Punctuation
170
Ownership with Hyphenated Words
175
CHAPTER
183
Using Sanitizing Quotation Marks
195
CHAPTER
200
Addressing addresses
209
CHAPTER
215
CHAPTER
281
Sprucing Up Boring Sentences with Clauses and Verbals
289
CHAPTER
295
Conjunction Pairs
305
CHAPTER
311
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316
22
331
Words That Resemble Each Other
337
Complicated Verbs
344
Check the Commas
354
xvi
355
24
357
Index
360
INDEX
361
77
362
Table of Contents
363
125
364
128
370
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183
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269
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About the author (2017)

Geraldine Woods has more than 35 years of teaching experience. She is the author of more than 50 books, including English Grammar Workbook For Dummies and Research Papers For Dummies.