English Grammar For DummiesGet 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.
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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 |
English Grammar For Dummies | 248 |
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 |
75 | 316 |
22 | 331 |
Words That Resemble Each Other | 337 |
Complicated Verbs | 344 |
Check the Commas | 354 |
xvi | 355 |
24 | 357 |
Index | 360 |
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