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"I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble."
- John Wayne
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 187 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0684807807
Release Date: Jan 7, 1995
| |  | | | In Brief
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.
| | | | From The Publisher
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.
| | | | Annotation
For everyone who wants to use the right word in the right place, punctuate properly, and spell correctly, this "plain English" grammar book is designed for those adults who have forgotten all the rules they learned in school, and focuses just on what one needs to know to speak and write correctly in business and in everyday life.
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| | | |  | | | | Introduction | 9 | | How to Use This Book | 10 | | Who Makes Up the Rules? | 11 | | 1 | Five Lies Your English Teacher Told You | 15 | | 2 | Mistakes Your Boss Minds the Most | 20 | | 3 | The Comma, the Whole Comma, and Nothing but the Comma | 31 | | 4 | More Punctuation: Semicolons, Colons, Quotation Marks, and Apostrophes | 61 | | 5 | Still More Punctuation: Parentheses, Dashes, Hyphens, Ellipses, Brackets | 80 | | 6 | Twelve Rules for Handling Numbers | 93 | | 7 | Spelling Bee | 98 | | 8 | Capitalization Questions | 107 | | 9 | Brief Words on Abbreviations | 115 | | 10 | Word-Divsion Dilemmas | 119 | | 11 | Pronoun Problems | 125 | | 12 | Agreement Issues | 134 | | 13 | "Did You Get My Memo?" | 163 | | 14 | Answers to Your Questions on Letter Writing | 177 | | 15 | Netiquette - E-Mail Etiquette | 183 | | App. Troublesome Words and Phrases | 191 | | App. Words That Are Easy to Mispell (Misspell) | 233 | | App. Simple Business Verbs You Should Know | 235 | | App. Formatting of Letters and Memos | 236 | | Glossary | 239 | | Bibliography | 243 | | Index | 245 |
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