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Title: Express Review Guides: Grammar

Author(s): LearningExpress Editors

Publisher: LearningExpress

Date: 2007

Pages: 224

Size: 1.28 Mb

Format: PDF

Quality: High

Language: American English

Contents:

Are you confused by commas? Do you know what makes a modifier dangle and how to fix it? With Express Review Guides: Grammar, your days of fretting about punctuation and modifiers are over! This guide will show you how to avoid all kinds of grammatical errors through fast, targeted lessons that reinforce necessary skills. Through a variety of examples that clearly illustrate the differences between excellent and awful grammar, you will learn how to construct sentences and punctuate them properly. Express Review Guides: Grammar covers all you need to know about grammar for school, work, and everyday life. Say good-bye to grammar anxiety with the quickest way to get your grammar up to speed.

Contents

INTRODUCTION

v

CHAPTER 1 Pretest 1

CHAPTER 2 Capitalization and Punctuation—First Things First 15

CHAPTER 3 Spelling—Spell Well . with a Few Exceptions 51

CHAPTER 4 Verbs—The Movers and Shakers of Language 69

CHAPTER 5 Adjectives and Adverbs—The 5 Ws and 4 Hs

of Good Writing

89

CHAPTER 6 Agreement—A Matter of Compatibility 107

CHAPTER 7 Modifiers—Does It Dangle or Squint or Split? 127

CHAPTER 8 Sentence Structure—From the Simple to the

Complex

143

CHAPTER 9 Paragraphs—As Easy as Announce-Build-Close! 157

CHAPTER 10 Tricky Words—Bee a Wear of Why Lee Words! 171

CHAPTER 11

Posttest 187

GLOSSARY 201