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The McGraw-Hill Education handbook of English grammar and usage / Mark Lester and Larry Beason.
LIBRA PE1112 .L463 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lester, Mark, author.
- Beason, Larry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Grammar--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- English language.
- English language--Usage--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- English language--Usage.
- English language--Grammar.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 433 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Other Title:
- Handbook of English grammar and usage
- English grammar and usage
- Place of Publication:
- New York : McGraw-Hill Education, [2019]
- Summary:
- Reviews the rules of English grammar, covering such topics as verb forms, subject-verb agreement, punctuation, capitalization, parallelism, who versus whom, and etiquette for digital communication.
- Contents:
- Part I: Grammar 101. Parts of speech ; Basic phrases ; Sentences and clauses ; Verb forms ; Verbals
- Part II: How to find and correct mistakes. Writing complete sentences ; Subject-verb agreement ; Pronoun problems ; Verb problems ; Modification ; Commas ; Apostrophes ; Semicolons and colons ; Quotation marks ; Dashes, hyphens, and other punctuation ; Capitalization ; Parallelism ; Grammar etiquette for digital communication
- Appendix A: Homophone misspellings and commonly confused word.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1260121674
- 9781260121674
- OCLC:
- 1035462794
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