Catherine Depino

Excuse Me, Your Participle's Dangling (eBook, ePUB)

How to Use Grammar to Make Your Writing Powers Soar

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Excuse Me, Your Participle's Dangling will give you all the bare essentials of grammar that you need to write like a pro. The book also offers a simple yet foolproof method of writing under pressure, the key to success in any college program or workplace. If you're a businessperson, college student, or ESL student seeking a user-friendly grammar book that aims to make you a better writer, this book is for you! If you learn the information in one chapter each day, in less than two weeks, your writing will improve dramatically, and you'll grow in confidence as a writer. You'll also learn shortcuts to help you with all the types of writing you'll do in college and on the job. Try all of them. They really work, and that's a promise. To sum it up, grammar is only a means to an end, a tool to help you write better. That's something your teacher probably never told you. By understanding grammar, you'll learn how to express yourself beautifully in speaking and in writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475802788
• Artikelnr.: 38461427

Autorenporträt

Dr. Catherine DePino is the author of four books about bullying. Blue Cheese Breath and Stinky Feet: How to Deal with Bullies, a chapter book published by APA, has been translated into different languages and is widely used in bully prevention programs. Her parenting book, Who Says Bullies Rule?: Common Sense Tips to Help Your Kids Cope, gives parents practical tools to help children overcome bullying. She also wrote Real Life Bully Prevention for Real Kids, a teacher resource book. Additionally, Catherine wrote many grammar/writing books for teachers to use in their classrooms. Catherine holds a doctorate from Temple University and has served as an English teacher and department head in the Philadelphia School District and as a student teaching supervisor for Temple University. View her website and contact her at www.catherinedepino.com.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Verbs: The Lifeblood of Sentences 2. How to Build a Sentence from Start
to Finish 3. Sentence Fragments and Run-On Sentences: Big Time Blunders
Corrected 4. Adjectives and Adverbs: How to Use Them Wisely 5. Dangling and
Misplaced Modifiers: How to Identify and Avoid Them 6. Commas, Part I: How
They Help Sentences Make Sense 7. Comma, Part II: How to Punctuate
Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Clauses and Phrases 8. The Rest of the
Punctuation Marks: All You Need to Know 9. Agreement Problems: How to Spot
and Solve Them 10. Words Often Confused: How to Get Them Straight 11.
Writing Style: What It Is and How to Get It 12. How to Write Under Pressure
Using a Foolproof Plan