Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference

You'll Love This Book If:

• You want to improve your grammar
• You have questions about usage such as when to use a comma or semicolon
• You are an advanced writer

If you are new to writing, want to brush up on your grammar skills, or improve your writing, The Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference is your best resource because it provides you and like-minded writers with in-depth information on grammar, punctuation, and usage.

In fact, throughout the book you'll find extracted erroneous sentences from lively published sources, mostly newspapers and magazines authors Gary Lutz and Diane Stevenson enjoy reading. They write in the introduction, "That our very best writers now and then commit errors should deepen our appreciation of just how demanding the craft of writing is—from drafting, composing, and revising to editing, proofreading, and printing."

The book is divided in four parts; part one provides an overview of grammar, including nouns and verbs, modifiers, phrases, clauses and other parts of speech. Part two covers the rules, conventions and errors to avoid, including subject-verb agreements, verbs usage, parallelism, errors in modification: misplaced, dangling, ambiguous modifiers, personal pronouns, antecedents, and poor elliptical construction. In part three, you'll explore punctuation and its various forms from commas, semicolons, dashes, italics and quotation marks to parentheses, hyphens, and apostrophes. Lastly, in part four, you'll fine tune the mechanics and usage of grammar and discover a glossary of commonly misused words.

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