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Grammar for Grown-ups

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: UK Vintage 2012Description: 304pISBN:
  • 9780224087018
DDC classification:
  • 428.2/FRY
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is a comprehensive, informative but light-hearted guide to grammar for the twenty-first century; a guide for those who have forgotten the grammar they were taught at school, and for those who weren't taught it in the first place yet who now feel at a disadvantage, and realise there is more to life and literature than a text message?!

While aware that the market may be covered already by various tomes on the subject, these seem to be either too old-fashioned, dogmatic, heavy-handed, or jokey, incomplete, even incomprehensible.

This will be a good-tempered guide - not a bossy bible - covering rules of grammar, punctuation, spelling, use and misuse, common errors, not so common errors, and regional and international variations. It will also give practical tips and advice for everyday usage and self-improvement.

Clearly laid out, irreverent, punchy and a perhaps a little quirky, it will be objective, with the odd example of the authors arguing - indicating that some rules are not hard and fast, and may even on occasion be broken.

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