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" English grammar for dummies / "
by Geraldine Woods.
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BL
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993662
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b748032
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| Main Entry
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Woods, Geraldine.
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| Title & Author
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English grammar for dummies /\ by Geraldine Woods.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Hungry Minds,, ©2001.
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| Series Statement
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--For dummies
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xxii, 360 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0764553224
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: 9780764553226
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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I already know how to talk, why should I study grammar? -- Verbs: the heart of the sentence -- Relax! understanding verb tense -- Who's doing what? how to find the subject -- Having it all: the complete sentence -- Handling complements -- Getting hitched: marrying sentences -- Do you feel bad or badly? the lowdown on adjectives and adverbs -- Prepositions and interjections and articles, oh my! other parts of speech -- Everyone brought their homework: pronoun errors -- Jsust nod your head: about agreement -- Prunctuation law that should be repealed: apostrophes -- Quotations: more rules than the Internal Revenue Service -- The pause that refreshes: commas -- Adding information: semicolons, dashes, and colons -- Capital letters -- Pronouns and their cases -- fine-tuning verbs -- Saying what you wnat to say: descriptive words and phrases -- Good, better, Best: comparisons -- Parallels without the lines -- The last word on verbs -- The last word on pronouns -- The last word on sentence structure -- The last word on punctuation -- Ten ways two (to) improve your proofreading -- Ten ways to learn better grammar.
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From pronouns, participles, and parallel structure to adjectives, verbs, and tenses, this friendly guide will put the joy back into "proper" speaking and writing--without bogging you down in a boring list of rules.
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English language-- Grammar, Problems, exercises, etc.
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English language-- Grammar.
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English language-- Grammar, Problems, exercises, etc.
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English language-- Grammar.
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English language-- Grammar.
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Language.
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Vocabulary, Controlled.
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| Dewey Classification
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428.2/4
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| LC Classification
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PE1112.3.W66 2001
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H314clc
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