English Grammar Workbook for Dummies

English Grammar WorkbookFor Dummies doesn’t concentrate on what we English teachers (yes, I confess I am one) call descriptive grammar— the kind where you circle all the nouns and draw little triangles around the prepositions. A closely guarded English-teacher secret is that you don’t need to know any of that terminology (well, hardly any) to master grammar. Instead, English Grammar Workbook For Dummies concentrates on functional grammar— what goes where in real-life speech and writing.

Each chapter begins with a quick explanation of the rules (don’t smoke, don’t stick your chewing gum on the bedpost, be sure your sentence is complete, and so forth). Okay, I’m kidding about the smoking and the chewing gum, but you get the idea. I start off telling you what’s right and wrong in standard English usage.

Next, I provide an example and then hit you with ten or so quick questions. Just to make sure you know that I’m not wasting your time, in every chapter I give you a sample from real-life English (with a fairly absurd situation, just to keep your funny bone tingling), so you can see how proper grammar actually aids communication.

After filling in the blanks, you can check your answers at the end of the chapter. In English Grammar Workbook For Dummies, I also tell you why a particular choice is correct, not just for the sake of learning a set of rules but rather to help you make the right decision the next time — when you’re deciding between their and they’re or went and had gone, for example.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Placing the Proper Verb in the Proper Place
Chapter 02 - Matchmaker, Make Me a Match: Pairing Subjects and Verbs Correctly
Chapter 03 - Who Is She, and What Is It? The Lowdown on Pronouns
Chapter 04 - Finishing What You Start: Writing Complete Sentences
Chapter 05 - Exercising Comma Sense
Chapter 06 - Made You Look! Punctuation Marks That Demand Attention
Chapter 07 - One Small Mark, a Whole New Meaning: Apostrophes
Chapter 08 - “Let Me Speak!“ Quotation Marks
Chapter 09 - Hitting the Big Time: Capital Letters
Chapter 10 - The Case of It (And Other Pronouns)
Chapter 11 - Choosing the Best Pronoun for a Tricky Sentence
Chapter 12 - Traveling in Time: Tricky Verb-Tense Situations
Chapter 13 - Are You and Your Verbs in the Right Mood?
Chapter 14 - Writing Good or Well: Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 15 - Going on Location: Placing Descriptions Correctly
Chapter 16 - For Better or Worse: Forming Comparisons
Chapter 17 - Apples and Oranges: Improper Comparisons
Chapter 18 - Practicing Parallel Structure
Chapter 19 - Spicing Up and Trimming Down Your Sentences
Chapter 20 - Steering Clear of Tricky Word Traps
Chapter 21 - Ten Overcorrections
Chapter 22 - Ten Errors to Avoid at All Cost

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