Most of us are not poets or novelists, but we are all writers. We email, text, and post; we craft memos and reports, menus and outdoor signage, birthday cards and sticky notes on the fridge.
Get a Grip on Your Grammar is a grammar book for those who hate grammar books, a writing resource filled with quick answers and a playful stylenot endless, indecipherable grammar jargon.
Get a Grip on Your Grammar is The Elements of Style for the Twitter generation. Designed for student, business, and creative-writing audiences alike, its easily digestible, occasionally witty writing tips will finally teach you:
- The differences between "lay" and "lie."
- The proper usage of "affect" and "effect."
- Where to put punctuation around quotation marks.
- The meaning of "e.g." versus "i.e."
- The perils of overusing the word "suddenly."
- That apostrophes should not be thrown about like confetti.
- And 243 more great tips.
Writers owe it to themselves and to everyone who sees their written words to get it right. With Get a Grip on Your Grammar, they finally can (not "may").
Most of us are not poets or novelists, but we are all writers. We email, text, and post; we craft memos and reports, menus and outdoor signage, birthday cards and sticky notes on the fridge.
Get a Grip on Your Grammar is a grammar book for those who hate grammar books, a writing resource filled with quick answers and a playful stylenot endless, indecipherable grammar jargon.
Get a Grip on Your Grammar is The Elements of Style for the Twitter generation. Designed for student, business, and creative-writing audiences alike, its easily digestible, occasionally witty writing tips will finally teach you:
- The differences between "lay" and "lie."
- The proper usage of "affect" and "effect."
- Where to put punctuation around quotation marks.
- The meaning of "e.g." versus "i.e."
- The perils of overusing the word "suddenly."
- That apostrophes should not be thrown about like confetti.
- And 243 more great tips.
Writers owe it to themselves and to everyone who sees their written words to get it right. With Get a Grip on Your Grammar, they finally can (not "may").
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781632650917 |
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Publisher: | Red Wheel/Weiser |
Publication date: | 04/17/2017 |
Edition description: | First Edition |
Pages: | 224 |
Sales rank: | 785,511 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d) |