English grammar for dummies - Geraldine Woods

Learn to:

• Get down to basics with the rules of English grammar


• Improve your writing and verbal communication skills


• Brush up on your proofreading abilities


• Improve your grades and/or test scores

The fun and easy way to improve your grammar

Do the parts of speech render you speechless? Does the thought of diagramming sentences make you sweat? Fear not! English Grammar For Dummies, 2nd Edition takes the "grr" out of grammar and gives you fun, easy-to-follow strategies for understanding the rules of grammar and punctuation to improve your speaking and writing skills
without ever diagramming a single sentence!

• Quoting the experts
  learn when to use single quotation marks, double quotation marks, or no quotation marks at all


• Avoid common errors and mistakes
  discover the mismatches between singular and plural words and pronoun gender


• Todays technology
  brush up on the proper way to compose emails, texts, and presentations and get the latest grammar dos and donts for blogging, texting, and IMing


• Periods, commas, and colons, oh my!
  use a little "comma sense" to make sure your writing is always punctuated properly


• Capitalize on the situation
  understand what words and phrases are capitalized and which are lowercased


• Rules even your grammar teacher didnt know
  find out how to avoid double-negative errors and get the last word on the dreaded who/whom debate

Open the book and find:

• The building blocks of a sentence


• The rules of verbs and prepositions


• Tips to improve speaking and writing skills


• The latest techniques for improving your command of grammar


• Updated examples and references


• Ways to improve your proofreading


• Help for speakers or writers of any skill level