02140cam a2200289 4500 388802188 TxAuBib 20110718120000.0 020128s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2001089309 9780764553226 0764553224 TxAuBib Woods, Geraldine. English Grammar for Dummies. NY : Hungry Minds, 2001. xxii, 360 pags : illustrations ; 24 cm. For Dummies I already know how to talk, why should I study grammar? -- Verbs: The heart of the sentence -- Relax!: Understanding verb tense -- Who's doing what? How to find the subject -- Having it all: The complete sentence -- Handling complements -- Getting hitched: Marrying sentences -- Do you feel bad or badly? The lowdown on adjectives and adverbs -- Prepositions and interjections and articles, oh my! Other parts of speech -- Everyone brought their homework: Pronoun errors -- Just nod your head: About agreement -- Punctuation law that should be repealed: Apostrophes -- Quotations: More rules than the Internal Revenue Service -- The pause that refreshes: Commas -- Adding information: Semicolons, dashes, and colons -- Capital letters -- Pronouns and their Cases -- Fine-Tuning verbs -- Saying what you want to say: Descriptive words and phrases -- Good, better, Best: Comparisons -- Parallels without the lines -- The last word on verbs -- The last word on pronouns -- The last word on sentence structure -- The last word on punctuation -- Ten ways two (to) improve your proofreading -- Ten ways to learn better grammar. From pronouns, participles, and parallel structure to adjectives, verbs, and tenses, this friendly guide will put the joy back into "proper" speaking and writing--without bogging you down in a boring list of rules. 20020128. English Language Grammar. English Language Grammar Problems, exercises, etc. Language and Languages. Vocabulary. For Dummies.