 13  Whether you are an instructor teaching students the rules of English or a student, executive, professional writer, or avid blogger honing your grammar and punctuation skills, this book will help you zip through tests (including the SAT), reports, essays, letters, e-mails, and resumes and will make you (or at least your writing) look impressive. This book is logical, self-paced, and fun to use, with scores of interesting and challenging quizzes that may be photocopied to your heart's content. Best of all, you can look forward to instant gratification because the answers are included. If you don't want to interrupt your thoughts to figure out where the next comma should go or whether to write who or whom, you will find The Blue Book a pleasure to use. Dedicated to eliminating unnecessary jargon, it highlights the most important grammar, punctuation, and capitalization rules and clarifies the most commonly confused words. The Blue Book begins with Chapter One, Grammar. Here, you will learn how to locate Subjects and Verbs so that you can make sure they agree with each other. Then you will move on to Pronoun Usage so that you will know whether to write I or me, he or him, who or whom, and so forth. From there, in the Adjective and Adverb chapter, you will discover why some words have -ly added to them and why you must say, ''She did well on the test,'' not, ''She did good on the test.'' After that, you will breeze through Prepositions where you will find some surprising rules and we will debunk at least one myth. Hint: Is it safe to ask, ''What are you talking about?'' or must we ask, ''About what are you talking?'' The Effective Writing section of this chapter will give you helpful tips to be able to construct sentences and paragraphs that flow gracefully, making it easier to write quickly and well. After that, you will enjoy spending time reading all about affect vs. effect, lay vs. lie, their vs. there vs. they're, and its vs. it's in Chapter Two, Confusing Words and Homonyms. I have provided hundreds of words for you in this chapter so you will never have to be confused between farther and further, continual and continuous, and all the rest of the trickiest words in the English language. 13 |
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