English Grammar All-in-One For Dummies
- Length: 528 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: For Dummies
- Publication Date: 2023-04-11
- ISBN-10: 1394159447
- ISBN-13: 9781394159444
- Sales Rank: #1062840 (See Top 100 Books)
Learn to get your ideas across clearly and correctly―the easy way
English Grammar All-in-One For Dummies is packed with everything you need to know to communicate with confidence―in your writing, on standardized tests, at work, on social media, and everywhere else. Strong verbal and written skills can help you get where you want to be, and this easy-to-understand Dummies guide will help you understand the English grammar principles you need to know so you can improve your understanding of basic grammar and punctuation rules, easily identify parts of speech, and communicate more effectively.
- Learn the basics of punctuation―periods, commas, semicolons, and beyond
- Write clearer e-mails and messages, or ace the writing section of your test
- Navigate pronouns and make sure you’re using inclusive language
- Practice with end-of-chapter quizzes and even more online practice
English Grammar All-In-One For Dummies is an excellent resource for students, professionals, job seekers, non-native-English learners, and anyone who wants to brush up on using this crazy language we call English.
Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction About This Book Foolish Assumptions Icons Used in This Book Beyond the Book Where to Go from Here Unit 1 Exploring Grammar and Style Chapter 1 Sampling the Ingredients of Grammar and Style What This Year’s Sentence Is Wearing: Understanding Grammar and Style Getting to Know the Elements of Grammar and Style Parts of speech Parts of a sentence Verbs Subjects Complements and descriptions Small but important: Punctuating, capitalizing, and spelling Punctuation Capitalization Spelling Recognizing Your Grammar Profile Chapter 2 Adapting Language to Every Situation Grasping the Power and Limits of Standard English Adjusting Language to Suit Your Audience Wanna get something to eat? Friendspeak Conversational English Standard English Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 2 Quiz Answers to Chapter 2 Quiz Unit 2 Exploring Parts of Speech Chapter 3 People to See, Places to Go, Things to Remember: Recognizing Nouns Identifying Nouns Naming people with nouns Naming places with nouns Naming things with nouns Naming ideas and emotions with nouns Sorting Out Singular and Plural Nouns Adding the letters S or ES to form plurals Plurals that break the rules Attaching “This,” “These,” and Other Words to Nouns Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 3 Quiz Answers to Chapter 3 Quiz Chapter 4 Meeting the Pronoun Family Working Hard: Pronouns and Their Jobs Replacing nouns Replacing pronouns Doubling back with -self pronouns Creating connections, asking questions Tracing Pronoun Traits Person and number Gender and number Case Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 4 Quiz Answers to Chapter 4 Quiz Chapter 5 Existing and Acting with Verbs Expressing Meaning with Verbs Tense Number Mood Voice Meeting the Families: Linking and Action Verbs Linking verbs: A giant equal sign Forms of “be” Synonyms of “be” Savoring sensory verbs Lights! Camera! Action verb! Pop the Question: Locating the Verb Calling the Help Line for Verbs The big three The verb “be” The verb “do” The verb “have” Timing is everything: Creating a time frame with helping verbs Don’t ask! Questions and negative statements Adding shades of meaning with helping verbs Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 5 Quiz Answers to Chapter 5 Quiz Chapter 6 Two Real Really Good Parts of Speech: Adjectives and Adverbs Clarifying Meaning with Descriptions Adding Adjectives Adjectives describing nouns Adjectives describing pronouns Adjectives attached to linking verbs Pop the question: Identifying adjectives Articles: Not just for magazines Stalking the Common Adverb Pop the question: Finding the adverb Adverbs describing adjectives and other adverbs Choosing Between Adjectives and Adverbs Sorting out “good” and “well” Dealing with “bad” and “badly” Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 6 Quiz Answers to Chapter 6 Quiz Chapter 7 Tiny but Mighty: Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections Proposing Relationships: Prepositions Prepositional phrases Pop the question: Questions that identify the objects of the prepositions Why pay attention to prepositions? Connecting with Conjunctions Improving flow and adding meaning with conjunctions Pairing up conjunctions Interjections Are Easy! Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 7 Quiz Answers to Chapter 7 Quiz Unit 3 Basic Elements of a Sentence Chapter 8 Who’s Doing What? Identifying the Subject-Verb Pair Baring the Bones of a Sentence: The Subject–Verb Pair When One Is Not Enough: Compound Subjects and Verbs Pop the Question: Locating the Subject–Verb Pairs Popping the question for questions Unusual word order Not missing in action: Detecting you-understood Don’t Get Faked Out: Avoiding Fake Verbs and Subjects Verbals “Here” and “there” sentences Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 8 Quiz Answers to Chapter 8 Quiz Chapter 9 Handling Complements Getting a Piece of the Action: Complements for Action Verbs Receiving the action: Direct objects Rare, but sometimes there: Indirect objects No bias here: Objective complements Completing the Equation: Subject Complements Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 9 Quiz Answers to Chapter 9 Quiz Chapter 10 When All Is Said and Done: Complete Sentences Completing Sentences: The Essential Subjects and Verbs Not flying solo: Verb forms ending in –ing Past verb forms that can’t stand alone Do not “be” alone Complete Thoughts, Complete Sentences Reaching the End of the Line: End Marks Connecting Ideas Breaking Away from Sentence Fragments Placing fragments in the right context Steering clear of inappropriate fragments Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 10 Quiz Answers to Chapter 10 Quiz Chapter 11 No Santas but Plenty of Clauses Grasping the Basics of Clause and Effect Sorting Subordinate and Independent Clauses Defining the Three Legal Jobs for Subordinate Clauses Describing nouns and pronouns Describing verbs, adjectives, or adverbs Acting as subjects, objects, or subject complements inside another clause Untangling Subordinate and Independent Clauses Deciding When to Untangle Clauses When you’re picking a pronoun When you’re deciding on the correct verb When you’re figuring out where to put commas Choosing Content for Subordinate Clauses Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 11 Quiz Answers to Chapter 11 Quiz Unit 4 Clearing Up Confusing Grammar Points Chapter 12 Relax! Understanding Verb Tense, Voice, and Mood It’s All in the Timing: Tense Simplifying matters: The simple tenses Present tense Past tense Future tense Using the simple tenses correctly Present and present progressive Past and past progressive Future and future progressive Not picture-perfect: Understanding the perfect tenses Present perfect and present perfect progressive Past perfect and past perfect progressive Future perfect and future perfect progressive Employing the perfect tenses correctly Case 1: Beginning in the past and continuing in the present Case 2: Events at two different times in the past Case 3: More than two past events, all at different times Case 4: Two events in the future Speaking of the past and things that never change Romeo lives! Writing about literature and art in present tense The rebels: Dealing with irregular verbs Giving Voice to Verbs Getting Your Verbs in the Proper Mood Stating the facts: Indicative Commanding your attention: Imperative Discovering the possibilities: Subjunctive Using subjunctives with “were” Forming subjunctives with “had” Expressing an indirect command Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 12 Quiz Answers to Chapter 12 Quiz Chapter 13 Agreement: Choosing Singular or Plural Verbs and Pronouns Agreeing Not to Disagree Making Subjects and Verbs Agree: The Basics Matching Subjects and Verbs in Some Tricky Situations Compound subjects Ignoring distracting descriptions Each and every Either and neither, alone or with partners Five puzzling pronouns The ones, the things, and the bodies Agreeing with Relative Pronouns Politics and Other Irregular Subjects Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 13 Quiz Answers to Chapter 13 Quiz Chapter 14 Solving Pronoun Case While We’re on the Subject: Choosing Pronouns to Act as Subjects Taking an Objective Viewpoint: Choosing Pronouns to Act as Objects Dealing with direct and indirect objects Are you talking to I? Prepositions and pronouns Attaching objects to verbals Knowing the Difference Between Who and Whom Attracting Appositives Picking Pronouns for Comparisons Dealing with Pronouns and -ing Nouns Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 14 Quiz Answers to Chapter 14 Quiz Chapter 15 Getting Specific: The Power of Descriptions Creating Comparisons with Adjectives and Adverbs Ending it with -er or giving more to adjectives Creating comparisons with adverbs Breaking the rules: Irregular comparisons Good, bad, well Little, many, much Resolving incomplete and illogical comparisons Incomplete comparison Illogical comparisons On Location: Placing Descriptions Correctly Troubling singles Placing “even” Placing “almost” and “nearly” Placing “only” and “just” Misplaced descriptions Just hanging out: Danglers Avoiding confusing descriptions Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 15 Quiz Answers to Chapter 15 Quiz Unit 5 Spelling, Punctuation, and Capitalization Chapter 16 Becoming a Better Speler Speller Following the Rules of English Spelling Changing Y to I I before E Double letters Dropping the silent E Taming Spelling Demons How does the word end? One or two? Which vowel? Checking the Dictionary for Spelling Help Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 16 Quiz Answers to Chapter 16 Quiz Chapter 17 Little Hooks, Big Problems: Apostrophes The Pen of My Aunt or My Aunt’s Pen? Using Apostrophes to Show Possession Ownership for singles Sharing the wealth: Plural possessives Regular plural possessives Irregular plural possessives Compound plural possessives A few special possessions Possession with proper nouns Ownership with hyphenated words Possessive nouns that end in S Shortened Words for Busy People: Contractions Making short work of common contractions You coulda made a contraction mistake Managing Tricky Contraction/Pronoun Pairs Its/it’s Whose/who’s Your/you’re Their/there/they’re Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 17 Quiz Answers to Chapter 17 Quiz Chapter 18 Quotations: More Rules Than the Strictest Teacher And I Quote Punctuating Quotations Quotations with speaker tags Speaker tags before or after the quotation Interrupted quotations Avoiding run-on sentences with interrupted quotations Quotations without speaker tags Quotations with question marks Quotations with exclamation points Quotations with semicolons Quotations inside quotations Germ-Free Quotations: Using Sanitizing Quotation Marks Punctuating Titles: When to Use Quotation Marks Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 18 Quiz Answers to Chapter 18 Quiz Chapter 19 The Pause That Refreshes: Commas Distinguishing Items: Commas in Series Using “Comma Sense” to Add Information to Your Sentence List of descriptions Essential or extra? Commas tell the tale Commas with appositive influence You Talkin’ to Me? Direct Address Using Commas in Addresses and Dates Addressing addresses Punctuating dates Getting Started: The Introductory Comma Words not connected to the meaning of the sentence Phrases and clauses Punctuating Independently Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 19 Quiz Answers to Chapter 19 Quiz Chapter 20 Useful Little Marks: Dashes, Hyphens, and Colons Inserting Information with Dashes Long dashes Short dashes H-y-p-h-e-n-a-t-i-n-g Made Easy Understanding the great divide Using hyphens for compound words Placing hyphens in numbers Utilizing the well-placed hyphen Creating a Stopping Point: Colons Addressing a business letter or an email Introducing lists Introducing long quotations Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 20 Quiz Answers to Chapter 20 Quiz Chapter 21 Capital Letters Knowing What’s Up with Uppercase Capitalizing (or Not) References to People Sorting out job titles Writing about family relationships Tackling race and ethnicity Capitalizing Geography: Directions and Places Marking Seasons and Other Times Capitalizing Work and School Terms Capitalizing Titles Headline style Sentence style ?4U: Cn U AbbreV8? Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 21 Quiz Answers to Chapter 21 Quiz Unit 6 Developing Style Chapter 22 Adding Meaning with Well-Chosen Words Going Vivid with Verbs “There is” a problem with boring verbs Does your writing “have” a problem? Don’t just “say” and “walk” away Pinpointing Meaning with Nouns and Descriptions Saving Time: Cutting Unnecessary Words Repetition Wordiness Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 22 Quiz Answers to Chapter 22 Quiz Chapter 23 Grammar Gremlins Deleting Double Negatives Sounding Incorrect Scoring D minus Three terrible twos You gotta problem with grammar? Almost twins Continual/continually; continuous/continuously Farther/further Accept/except Affect/effect Pairs of Trouble: Complicated Verbs Sit/set Hanged/hung Rise/raise Lie/lay Lose/loose One Word or Two? Three for the Road: Other Common Errors Between/among Being that Try and/try to Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 23 Quiz Answers to Chapter 23 Quiz Chapter 24 Writing Stylish Sentences Speaking Verbally Identifying verbals Infinitives Participles Gerunds Choosing the correct tense Simultaneous events Different times Sprucing Up Boring Sentences with Clauses and Verbals Clauses Verbals Mixing It Up: Changing Sentence Patterns and Length Patterns Word order Parallelism Going long or cutting it short Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 24 Quiz Answers to Chapter 24 Quiz Unit 7 Grammar in Action Chapter 25 Adapting Your Style to Electronic Media Hitting the Screen with Formal or Informal Language Communicating Clearly in Texts, Tweets, and Posts Dropping words Omitting subjects and verbs Dropping other words Dropping punctuation and capital letters Abbreviating Emailing Your Way to Good Grammar The heading The greeting The body The closing PowerPoint to the People Surveying presentation slides Writing titles Biting the bulleted list Bullet introductions Bullet texts Autocorrect and Other Error Magnets Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 25 Quiz Answers to Chapter 25 Quiz Chapter 26 Writing at School and on the Job A Is for Accomplished: Writing at School Essays and research papers Formal writing Identifying others’ ideas Other formatting issues Science reports References to others’ experiments Reporting your own actions Other formatting issues Get to Work: Writing on the Job Letters Memos Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 26 Quiz Answers to Chapter 26 Quiz Index EULA
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