English Grammar Workbook for Dummies

Good grammar is important, whether you want to advance your career, boost your GPA, or increase your SAT or ACT score. Practice is the key to improving your grammar skills, and that's what this workbook is all about. Honing speaking and writing skills through continued practice translates into everyday situations, such as writing papers, giving presentations, and communicating effectively in the workplace or classroom.

In English Grammar Workbook For Dummies you'll find hundreds of fun problems to help build your grammar muscles. Just turn to a topic you need help with-from punctuation and pronouns to possessives and parallel structure-and get out your pencil. With just a little practice every day, you'll be speaking correctly, writing confidently, and getting the recognition you deserve at work or at school.

• Hundreds of practice exercises and helpful explanations
• Explanations mirror teaching methods and classroom protocols
• Focused, modular content presented in step-by-step lessons

English Grammar Workbook For Dummies will empower you to structure sentences correctly, make subject and verbs agree, and use tricky punctuation marks such as commas, semicolons, and apostrophes without fear.

Part I: Building a Firm Foundation: Grammar Basics.

Chapter 1: Finding the Right Verb at the Right Time.

Chapter 2: Got a Match? Pairing Subjects and Verbs Correctly.

Chapter 3: Who Is She, and What Is It? Pronoun Basics.

Chapter 4: Having It All: Writing Complete Sentences.

Part II: Mastering Mechanics.

Chapter 5: Pausing to Consider the Comma.

Chapter 6: A Hook That Can Catch You: Apostrophes.

Chapter 7: "Let Me Speak!" Quotation Marks.

Chapter 8: Hitting the Big Time: Capital Letters.

Part III: Applying Proper Grammar in Tricky Situations.

Chapter 9: Choosing the Best Pronoun: Case, Number, and Clarity.

Chapter 10: Tensing Up: Choosing the Right Verb for Tricky Sentences.

Chapter 11: Are You and Your Verbs in the Right Mood?

Chapter 12: Writing for Electronic Media.

Part IV: Upping the Interest: Describing and Comparing.

Chapter 13: Writing Good or Well: Adjectives and Adverbs.

Chapter 14: Going on Location: Placing Descriptions Correctly.

Chapter 15: For Better or Worse: Forming Comparisons.

Part V: Improving Your Writing Style.

Chapter 16: Staying on Track: Parallel Writing.

Chapter 17: The Writing Diet: Adding Spice and Cutting Fat from Your Sentences.

Chapter 18: Steering Clear of Tricky Word Traps.

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 19: Ten Overcorrections.

Chapter 20: Ten Errors to Avoid at All Costs.

Appendix: Grabbing Grammar Goofs.

Index.