Comma Sense

142 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h46min.
Guide for Grammar, Voice, and Sentence Structure“If you're going to have one grammar book on your shelf, make it this one!” —Dani Alcorn, COO at Writing Academy and cofounder of Writer's Secret Sauce#1 New Release in Writing, Research & Publishing Guides, Composition and Language, Grammar Reference, Semantics, Vocabulary Books, Study & Teaching Reference, Reading Skills, and editingComma Sense by Ellen Feld is a style guide for all things grammar. Learn the rules of adverbs, punctuation, abbreviations, prepositions, and much more. Feld shows you how to write technically, professionally, and personally.Grammar for everyone. Master English grammar with Ellen Feld. Comma Sense goes above and beyond the average grammar book. Professional writers, students, novices, and experts can benefit from learning or relearning the basics of grammar and beyond: em dashes, parentheticals and parallelism, diction and logic, run-on sentences and sentence fragments, and more. Become a master of capitalization and punctuation, subjects and predicates, and contractions and possessives.Test Your Knowledge. After every chapter, take a quiz to practice your new grammatical skills in this great grammar workbook. At the end of the book, a comprehensive test allows you to utilize all you have learned.Inside, you’ll find:The basics of grammar and beyondTips for better writingTerrific supplementary resourcesReaders who enjoyed The Elements of Style; Actually, the Comma Goes Here; The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation; or The Perfect English Grammar Workbook will love Comma Sense: A Guide to Grammar Victory. Workbook will love Comma Sense: Your Guide to Grammar Victory.Table of Contents Learning Goals Chapter 1: Parts of Speech Chapter 2: Mixed-up Words Chapter 3: Contractions and Possessives Chapter 4: Subjects and Predicates Chapter 5: Sentence Fragments Chapter 6: Run-on Sentences Chapter 7: Standard Verb Forms Chapter 8: Pronouns Chapter 9: Agreement Chapter 10: Shifts in Person, Tense, and Structure Chapter 11: Clarity, Concision, Diction, and Logic Chapter 12: Capitalization and Punctuation Resources Index