The Everything Grammar and Style Book
Susan Thurman
Adams Media Corporation
Nonfiction, Writing
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DESCRIPTION: Grammar. Everyone ought to learn it, but nobody wants to teach it. Good grammar makes for better communication, but who wants to learn all those dry, outmoded, nitpicky rules? And who really cares about style anymore? This book offers easy lessons in basic grammar and style.
REVIEW: The information here is good, but the presentation is lousy. People with much shorter attention spans than I might enjoy it, though they might be put off by some of the tangents, such as page after page of "memory tricks" for proper spellings of commonly confused words. If this is the only grammar book you can find, you might want to try it, but I'd keep browsing if I were you.
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Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words (Josefa Heifetz Byrne, Nonfiction - A dictionary of peculiar terms)
Who's... (oops!) Whose Grammar Book is This, Anyway? (C. Edward Good, Nonfiction - What grammar is, how it works, and why it matters)
Words to Write By (Elaine L. Orr, Writing - How to organize thoughts and begin writing)
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