Little green grammar book [electronic resource] / Mark Tredinnick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tredinnick, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : UNSW Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What really goes on inside a sentence? What is your subject, and where is your verb, and what is its tense, and where is your modifier, and why does it matter? Where do you need a comma, and where do you not? Why are dashes and semicolons so misunderstood? When is it which and when is it that? In The Little Green Grammar Book, Mark Tredinnick asks and answers the tough grammar questions-big and small-with the same verve and authority readers encountered in The Little Red Writing Book. The Little Green Grammar Book does for grammar what The Little Red Writing Book did for style. It will have yo

Contents:

Contents; Prologue The rules for paradise; What grammar is and why you need it and how you master it; Part 1 A natural history of the sentence; Sentence grammar, parts of speech, phrases, clauses and sentence types; Part 2 Everyday Metamorphoses; Verbs, nouns and pronouns and how they change shape; and a bit more about determiners; Part 3 Keeping the pieces apart; The uses of punctuation; Part 4 Twenty-one grammar gaffes and how to avoid them; Common grammar problems and their silutions; Epilogue Learn the rules; forget the rules; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-74224-027-5

1-74223-058-X

OCLC:

689995646