The Handy English Grammar Answer Book
The Handy English Grammar Answer Book
Editor/Author
Hult, Christine A.
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-57859-520-4
Category: Language & Literature - Composition (Language arts)
Image Count:
115
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The Handy English Grammar Answer Book offers fundamental principles, grammar rules, punctuation advice, insights on writing, and writing examples for everyone and every occasion. From a brief history of the English language to the deconstruction and explanation of the different parts of a sentence, and from showing how to punctuate correctly to how to organize a well-argued essay, this easy-to-use reference answers nearly 500 questions and offers fun facts on the English language and its usage.
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Table of Contents
- PHOTO CREDITS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- THE ROOTS OF MODERN ENGLISH
- THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE CHANGE
- IMPORTANT GRAMMATICAL CONCEPTS AND TERMS
- SENTENCE STRUCTURE
- Parts of Speech
- Ways in Which Sentences Are Structured
- The Many Different Tenses of English Verbs
- SPELLING CORRECTLY
- General Information about Spelling
- General Spelling Rules and Patterns
- Spelling Noun Plurals Correctly
- USING PUNCTUATION CORRECTLY
- Using End Punctuation Correctly
- Using Commas Correctly
- Using Semicolons and Colons Correctly
- using Apostrophes and Quotation Marks Correctly
- Other Punctuation: Parentheses, Hyphens, Dashes, Brackets, Slashes, Bullet Points
- USING MECHANICS CORRECTLY
- Using Capital Letters Correctly
- Using Italics and Underlining Correctly
- Using Abbreviations Correctly
- Using Numbers Correctly
- Using Ellipses Correctly
- WRITING EFFECTIVE AND CORRECT SENTENCES
- Making Your Sentences Readable
- Some Common Sentence Problems with Adjectives and Adverbs
- Some Common Sentence Problems with Prepositions
- Some Common Sentence Problems with Pronouns
- Some Common Sentence Problems with Verbs
- USING WORDS EFFECTIVELY AND CORRECTLY
- Using a Dictionary and a Thesaurus
- Denotation and Connotation
- Levels of Formality
- Language and Identity
- ACADEMIC WRITING
- Writing in Different Disciplines
- Academic Research
- The Term or Research Paper
- Documentation
- Essays and Essay Exams
- WRITING IN SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY
- WRITING IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
- WRITING IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
- BUSINESS WRITING
- Invitations and Announcements
- LEARNING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
- ESL Problems with Verbs
- ESL Problems with Nouns
- ESL Problems with Articles
- ESL Problems with Word Order
- ESL Students and Vocabulary Problems
- ENGLISH IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE
- Electronic Communication
- APPENDIX
- FURTHER READING and USEFUL WEB SITES
- APPENDIX A: IRREGULAR VERB CHART
- APPENDIX B: IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS
- APPENDIX C: HOMOPHONES
- APPENDIX D: ENGLISH PREPOSITIONS
- APPENDIX E: MISUSED HOMOPHONES
- APPENDIX F: FREQUENTLY MISSPELLED WORDS
- APPENDIX G: WORDY PHRASES
- APPENDIX H: FREQUENTLY CONFUSED WORD PAIRS
- APPENDIX I: FAMOUS QUOTATIONS ON WRITING AND GRAMMAR
- APPENDIX J: MODEL PAPERS
- APPENDIX K: MODEL BIBLIOGRAPHY STYLES
- APPENDIX L: TWENTY COMMON GRAMMAR GREMLINS AND HOW TO FIX THEM