语法与标点符号蓝皮书,第10版The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation

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作者: Jane Straus 著
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出版时间: 2007-12-1字数:版次: 1页数: 153印刷时间: 2007/12/01开本: 16开印次: 1纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9780470222683包装: 平装编辑推荐
Jane Straus has created the popular Web site www.Grammarbook.com, which offers additional self-scoring, downloadable quizzes, video lessons, and a weekly online newsletter full of helpful tips. Jane is also a personal life coach and the author of Enough Is Enough! from Jossey-Bass. She keynotes at educational conferences and workshops, writes articles for publication, and appears frequently on TV and radio for her expertise in communications, relationships, and lifestyle enhancement.
内容简介
"Designed to answer the most pressing grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and usage questions . . . In this revised and updated tenth edition of her best-selling book, Jane Straus adds a new section on Confusing Words and Homonyms with hundreds of the trickiest words defined and explained.?Hailed as 'a masterpiece of clarity and usefulness.'"
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is filled with easy-to-understand rules,real-world examples, dozens of reproducible exercises, and pre- and post-tests.
This handy workbook is ideal for teachers, students in middle school through college, ESL students, homeschoolers, and professionals. Valuable for anyone who takes tests or writes reports, letters, Web pages, e-mails, or blogs, The Blue Book offers instant answers to everyday English usage questions.
"Clearly presented so that you can easily find the informationyou're looking for. This is great for students or for anyone who has troubleremembering the rules of grammar and punctuation."
"Never has there been such a well-arranged, easily navigatedguidebook as this. It is perfect for the homeschool family. One of the mostpractical, useable, beneficial resources, it doubles both as a quick referenceguide and student workbook (with answers in the back)!"
"Grammarians and citizens, I invite you to raise a glass to Jane Straus.The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is one-stop shopping for comprehensive grammar and style rules and is as charming as it is useful. I can't imagine one person whose writing wouldn't benefit enormously from reading this book."
目录
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Foreword by Mignon Fogarty (Grammar Girl)
Introduction
Grammar
Finding Subjects and Verbs
Finding verbs
Using verbs to find subjects
You as an understood subject
Multiple subjects and verbs in a sentence
Clauses, strong and weak
Subject and Verb Agreement
Singular vs. plural verbs
With or and nor
With either and neither
With conjunctions such as and and but
With interrupting expressions
With pronouns as subjects such as each, everyone, and anybody
With portions such as percent, fraction, part, some, all, and none
With here and there
With sums of money
With who, that, and which
With collective nouns
Pronouns
Subject Case (Nominative): I, you, he, she, it, we, they
Object Case (Objective): me, you, him, her, it, us, them
Correct use of pronouns by finding clauses
Following than or as
Possessive case: mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs, its
Its vs. it's
Using possessive case with gerunds
Reflexives: the self pronouns
Who vs. Whom
Whoever vs. Whomever
That vs. Which
Adjectives and Adverbs
Adjectives modifying nouns and pronouns
Adverbs modifying verbs, adjectives, and adverbs: Answerin~
When to add -ly
Sense verbs: taste, smell, look, and feel
Good vs. well
Comparisons such as -er vs. -est and more vs. most
This, that, these, and those
Than vs. then
Problems with Prepositions
Ending a sentence with a preposition
Avoiding extra prepositions
With dates
Of vs. have
Between vs. among
In vs. into
Like vs. as
Effective Writing
Concrete vs. vague language
Active vs. passive voice
Clumsy construction such as there is or it was
Double negatives
Similar grammatical form
Misplaced and dangling modifiers
Fragments
2 Confusing Words and Homonyms
Advice vs. advice
Affect vs. effect
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3 Punctuation
4 Csapitalization
5 Writing Numbers
6 Quizzes
7 Abeswers ti Qyuzzes