The little green grammar book
What really goes on inside a sentence? What is your subject, where is your verb, what is its tense, where is your modifier, and why does it matter? Where do you need a comma, and where do you not? Why are dashes and semicolons so misunderstood? When is it 'which' and when is it 'that'? In The Little Green Grammar Book, Mark Tredinnick asks and answers the tough grammar questions, big and small, with the same verve and authority readers encountered in The Little Red Writing Book. The Little Gree…
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- Full title :The little green grammar book / Mark Tredinnick.
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What really goes on inside a sentence? What is your subject, where is your verb, what is its tense, where is your modifier, and why does it matter? Where do you need a comma, and where do you not? Why are dashes and semicolons so misunderstood? When is it 'which' and when is it 'that'? In The Little Green Grammar Book, Mark Tredinnick asks and answers the tough grammar questions, big and small, with the same verve and authority readers encountered in The Little Red Writing Book. The Little Green Grammar Book does for grammar what The Little Red Writing Book did for style. It will have you writing like a writer in no time.
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- Publication Date:2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):UNSW Press
- Place of Publication:Sydney, N.S.W
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:255 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780868409191, 0868409197
- oclc:ocn271852485
- LC Classification:PE1106
- Dewey Decimal:428.2
Table of Contents
PROLOGUE -- THE RULES FOR PARADISE: What grammar is and why you need it and how you master it -- PART ONE -- A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SENTENCE: Sentence grammar, parts of speech, phrases, clauses and sentence types -- PART TWO -- EVERYDAY MAETAMORPHOSES: Verbs, nouns and pronouns, and how they change shape; and a bit more about determiners -- PART THREE -- KEEPING THE PIECES APART: The uses of punctuation -- PART FOUR -- TWENTY-ONE GRAMMAR GAFFES AND HOW TO AVOID THEM: Common grammar problems and their solutions -- EPILOGUE -- LEARN THE RULES; FORGET THE RULES -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
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