Barron's Pocket Guide to Correct Grammar

by Griffith, Benjamin W.

• ISBN13: 9780764126901
• ISBN10: 0764126903
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc

Summary

For many years, Barron's Pocket Guides have served senior school pupils,tudents, as well as business professionals and others, as reliableast-reference books filled with easy-to-locate information pertaining to allractical aspects of language use. The new editions are attractively designednd printed in two-colour type, and serve as especially useful books for theome, school, or business reference bookshelf. Correct grammar is more than aet of conventionally accepted rules; it's a reflection of clear thinking.ere are the rules of English grammar with insights into their underlyingogic and up-to-date examples.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
The Word	p. 1
The Noun	p. 1
The Pronoun	p. 7
The Verb	p. 16
The Adjective and the Adverb	p. 27
The Verbal	p. 33
Prepositions and Conjunctions	p. 37
Sentence Connectors	p. 40
The Interjection	p. 41
The Sentence and Its Parts	p. 42
The Subject and the Predicate	p. 42
Sentence Errors	p. 65
Sentence Fragments	p. 65
The Comma Fault	p. 67
The Fused Sentence	p. 68
Logic and Clarity	p. 70
Agreement of Subject and Verb	p. 70
Agreement of Pronoun and Antecedent	p. 80
Faulty Pronoun Reference	p. 85
Case	p. 89
Dangling Modifiers	p. 96
Misplaced Modifiers	p. 101
Split Constructions	p. 106
Faulty Comparison	p. 112
Omission of Necessary Words	p. 115
Emphasis, Consistency, and Appropriateness	p. 119
Emphasis	p. 119
Consistency	p. 129
Variety	p. 132
Punctuation	p. 135
Terminal Punctuation	p. 135
The Comma	p. 136
Misuse of the Comma	p. 144
The Semicolon	p. 145
The Colon	p. 147
The Em Dash	p. 148
The En Dash	p. 148
The Hyphen	p. 149
The Apostrophe	p. 150
Parentheses and Brackets	p. 150
Quotations and Quotation Marks	p. 151
Italics	p. 156
Wordiness	p. 158
Avoiding Wordiness	p. 158
Glossary of Words and Phrases Frequently Misused	p. 161
Which Prepositions go with which Verbs?	p. 179
A Brief Glossary of Basic Grammatical Terms	p. 183
Conjugations and Principal Parts	p. 192
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