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1 online resource (283 pages) |
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text file rdaft |
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(pdf) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The great eight (parts of speech) -- Which witch is which? (mixed-up words) -- It's or its? (contractions and possessives) -- Team work (subjects and predicates) -- As you were saying (sentence fragments) -- Where we'll stop, nobody knows (run-on sentences) -- They write, not writes, right? (standard verb forms) -- You are you (pronouns) -- Let's agree to agree (agreement: subjects and verbs, pronouns and antecedents) -- Along the same lines (shifts in person, tense, and structure) -- Say what you mean (clarity, concision, diction, and logic) -- How to begin and why stop at a period? (capitalization and punctuation). |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
"Comma Sense is a guide to all things grammar. Become an expert on capitalization and punctuation, subjects and predicates, contractions and possessives, and much more ... Professional writers, high schoolers, ESL students, entrepreneurs, and editors alike can benefit from learning (or relearning) the rules for apostrophes and em dashes, parentheticals and parallelism, and diction and logic. After every easy-to-read chapter, you can practice your new grammatical know-how with Ellen's fun mini quizzes. No matter your skill level, Comma Sense will help you improve your writing (and editing!) and equip you with greater grammar confidence"--Page [4] of cover. |
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Publisher metadata. |
| Subject |
English language -- Grammar.
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English language -- Grammar -- Study and teaching.
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English language -- Punctuation.
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English language -- Usage.
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English language -- Errors of usage.
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English language -- Grammar.
(OCoLC)fst00911209
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| Genre/Form |
Instructional and educational works.
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Informational works.
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Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9781642507263 (e-pub) |
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9781642507256 (print) |
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