English Grammar for Dummies
| Author(s): | Geraldine Woods |
|---|---|
| Published In: | 2001 |
| Genre: | Language Arts & Disciplines |
| Pages: | 384 |
"English Grammar for Dummies" Table Of Contents
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Chapter 12: Punctuation Law That Should Be Repealed: Apostrophes.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.
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