English Grammar for Dummies (Repost)

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English grammar—made fun and easy! Speak with ease, write with confidence, and release your fears! Avoid speech blunders and grammar foul-ups with this friendly, practical guide!

Sick of people correcting your grammar all the time? Relax! Let expert Geraldine Woods show you the way. From pronouns, participles, and parallel structure to adjectives, verbs, and tenses, this friendly guide will put the joy back into "proper" speaking and writing—without bogging you down in a boring list of rules.

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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."

Why does grammar make everyone so nervous? Probably because English teachers, for decades—no, for centuries—have been making a big deal out of grammar in classrooms, diagramming sentences and drilling the parts of speech, clauses, and verbals into students until they beg for mercy. Happily, you don't have to learn all those technical terms of English grammar—and you certainly don't have to diagram sentences—in order to speak and write correct English.

So rest assured—English Grammar For Dummies will probably never make your English teacher's top-ten list of must-read books, because you won't have to diagram a single sentence. What you will discover are fun and easy strategies that can help you when you're faced with such grammatical dilemmas as the choice between "I" and "me," "had gone" and "went," and "who" and "whom." With English Grammar For Dummies, you won't have to memorize a long list of meaningless rules (well, maybe a couple in the punctuation chapter!), because when you understand the reason for a particular word choice, you'll pick the correct word automatically.

English Grammar For Dummies covers many other topics as well, such as the following:

• Verbs, adjectives, and adverbs—oh my!
  
• Preposition propositions and pronoun pronouncements
  
• Punctuation: The lowdown on periods, commas, colons, and all those other squiggly marks
  
• Possession: It's nine-tenths of grammatical law
  
• Avoiding those double negative vibes
  
• How to spice up really boring sentences (like this one)
  
• Top Ten lists on improving your proofreading skills and ways to learn better grammar

Just think how improving your speaking and writing skills will help you in everyday situations, such as writing a paper for school, giving a presentation to your company's big wigs, or communicating effectively with your family. You will not only gain the confidence in knowing you're speaking or writing well, but you'll also make a good impression on those around you!

Contents

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

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