The big ten of grammar : identifying and fixing the ten most frequent grammatical errors / William B. Bradshaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bradshaw, William B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Grammar.

English language.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (158 p.)

Other Title:

Big 10 of grammar

Place of Publication:

New York : Beaufort Books, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Have you ever hesitated when choosing between I or me? Have you had trouble figuring out tricky pronouns like who or whom? What about those always-troublesome comas--do they go before or after the quotation marks? If you're anything like the rest of us, you struggle with these age-old grammatical issues. In this practical and easy-to-understand handbook, Dr. William B. Bradshaw identifies the ten most common errors in English grammar and helps you to recognize and correct these mistakes, enabling you to write and speak with greater clarity in your personal and professional life. The Big Ten of

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Number One Mistake: Misusing "I" and "Me"; Part A: Deleting the Other Person's Name; Part B: Completing the Sentence; Chapter 2: Working with "He" or "Him" and "She" or "Her"; Chapter 3: Quotation Marks and Other Punctuation; Chapter 4: The "ing" Thing; Chapter 5: "That" or "Which" and Some Other Things; Chapter 6: Misusing the Apostrophe; Part A: Forming Plurals; Part B: Forming Possessives; Chapter 7: Troublesome Verbs-"Lie," "Lay," "Laid," "Lain"; Chapter 8: "Less" or "Fewer"; Chapter 9: Commas and Semicolons in a Series

Chapter 10: Commas between AdjectivesSummary; Bonus Section: Time-Saving References; Part A: All about "Who" or "Whom"; Part B: Forming the Plural of Nouns: Special Exceptions to the Rules; Plural of ordinary nouns; Nouns ending in f or fe; Nouns ending in o; Nouns ending in y; Plural of Native American tribes; Irregular plurals; Plurals of national group names; Plurals of compound nouns; Plurals of letters, signs, symbols, figures, and so forth used as nouns; Plurals of academic degrees; Plural of words used as nouns; Plural nouns used as singular; Singular form wrongly used as plural

Plural of italicsPart C: Forming the Possessive Case: Irregular and Special Examples; General rule for forming possessive case of nouns; Using the "of " construction; General rule for forming possessive case of pronouns; The seven possessing pronouns and their independent forms; Using pronouns and their independent forms with nouns; Using independent forms without nouns; Independent form used as the subject; Cardinal rule: no apostrophes with possessive pronouns; Compound personal pronouns; Proper names to express possession; Possessive of noun compounds

Possessive for companies, organizations, and so forth"Of " construction not used with plural place names; Possessive with italics; Joint possession and individual possession; Possessive of nouns plural in form and singular in meaning; Possessive forms of diseases; Possessive nouns that are the same in singular and plural; Possessive forms of holidays; Part D: Principal Parts of Verbs Made Easy; Principal Parts; Appendix: Keeping Up-To-Date: Ten Short Reminders; "Can" and "may"; Ending sentences with a preposition; Starting sentences with a conjunction; No periods after academic degrees

Spelling out of numbersUsing "ly" after spelled-out numbers; "Further" and "farther"; Using simple personal pronouns; "Sure" and "certain"; "Good" and "well"

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-68553-0

9786613662477

0-8253-0614-0

OCLC:

795120419