More Nitty-Gritty Grammar: Another Not-So-Serious Guide to Clear Communication

Author:   Edith Hope Fine ,  Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
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9781580082280


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   12 September 2001
Format:   Paperback
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Who or whom? Lay or lie? Conjunction, pronoun, predicate, or gerund? If such questions and terms leave you scratching your head, you need the hip and fun follow-up to NITTY-GRITTY GRAMMAR. With a new, easy-to-use alphabetical format and the same winning formula of wacky cartoons, off-the-wall examples, and catchy reminders, MORE NITTY-GRITTY GRAMMAR will help you sidestep common bloopers, untangle your malapropisms, secure those dangling modifiers, and teach you to speak and write with clarity and confidence.

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Author:   Edith Hope Fine ,  Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
Imprint:   Ten Speed Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9781580082280


ISBN 10:   1580082289
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   12 September 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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* Grammar, like love, is a perpetual mystery, and books on how to do either better are eternal. In Nitty-Gritty Grammar, Edith H. Fine and Judith P. Josephson attack homonyms and dangling modifiers that? Which? Frequently plague even native speakers.... -Publishers Weekly


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"As ""The Grammar Patrol,"" EDITH H. FINE and JUDITH P. JOSEPHSON have fielded grammar questions on radio shows nationwide. They are the authors ofNitty-Gritty Grammar and More Nitty-Gritty Grammar. Besides writing how-to books for adults, the authors have written award-winning biographies, science books, and picture books for children. They teach grammar and writing through San Diego State University's extension program, and live in Encinitas, California, with their families. Judith Pinkerton Josephson is also the author of many books for children, including Mother Jones- Fierce Fighter for Workers' Rights, Allan Pinkerton- The Original Private Eye, and Growing up in Pioneer America. She is the co-author of Armando and the Blue Tarp School."

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