Action Grammar: Fast, No-Hassle Answers on Everyday Usage and Punctuation
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If terms like "transitive verb," "objective case," and "dangling participle" make your eyes glaze over, this book is for you. The only grammar guide to recognize that most adults have forgotten all the rules they learned in school, Action Grammar focuses on what you need to know to speak and write correctly in business and in everyday life. Organized to give you fast, easy answers to the questions that come up most often, Action Grammar features useful exercises to help you sort out the more puzzling points of spoken and written English, as well as dozens of up-to-date examples of correct (and incorrect) usage, from where to put a comma to when to use "me" rather than "I." For everyone who wants to use the right word in the right place, punctuate properly, and spell correctly, here's a must-have reference that will do wonders for your command of the language.
Introduction9How to Use This Book10Who Makes Up the Rules?111Five Lies Your English Teacher Told You152Mistakes Your Boss Minds the Most203The Comma, the Whole Comma, and Nothing but the Comma314More Punctuation: Semicolons, Colons, Quotation Marks, and Apostrophes615Still More Punctuation: Parentheses, Dashes, Hyphens, Ellipses, Brackets806Twelve Rules for Handling Numbers937Spelling Bee988Capitalization Questions1079Brief Words on Abbreviations11510Word-Divsion Dilemmas11911Pronoun Problems12512Agreement Issues13413"Did You Get My Memo?"16314Answers to Your Questions on Letter Writing17715Netiquette - E-Mail Etiquette183App. Troublesome Words and Phrases191App. Words That Are Easy to Mispell (Misspell)233App. Simple Business Verbs You Should Know235App. Formatting of Letters and Memos236Glossary239Bibliography243Index245
