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Essential English Grammar Publisher: Dover Publications
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First published June 1, 1966
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January 18, 2014
This is not the first time I've read this book and it won't be the last. However, it has been a few years since I'd read it from cover to cover. Last night, it just felt right.
Essential English Grammar reviews the basic parts of a sentence and how they function. It's a great reference guide and teaching tool. The book includes insight into sentence structure and includes practice work. As a blogger, writers, and even a reader, I've found this book to be a fantastic resource.
p.s. Essential English Grammar does not teach punctuation rules or any of that jazz. This book strictly tells you what a sentence should be and how words should behave within said sentence.
Essential English Grammar reviews the basic parts of a sentence and how they function. It's a great reference guide and teaching tool. The book includes insight into sentence structure and includes practice work. As a blogger, writers, and even a reader, I've found this book to be a fantastic resource.
p.s. Essential English Grammar does not teach punctuation rules or any of that jazz. This book strictly tells you what a sentence should be and how words should behave within said sentence.
July 26, 2020
The demonstrative pronouns of English are this (plural these), and that (plural those), as in these are good, I like that. Note that all four words can also be used as determiners (followed by a noun), as in those cars. They can also form the alternative pronominal expressions this/that one, these/those ones.
The interrogative pronouns are who, what, and which (all of them can take the suffix -ever for emphasis). The pronoun who refers to a person or people; it has an oblique form whom (though in informal contexts this is usually replaced by who), and a possessive form (pronoun or determiner) whose. The pronoun what refers to things or abstracts. The word which is used to ask about alternatives from what is seen as a closed set: which (of the books) do you like best? (It can also be an interrogative determiner: which book?; this can form the alternative pronominal expressions which one and which ones.) Which, who, and what can be either singular or plural, although who and what often take a singular verb regardless of any supposed number.
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The interrogative pronouns are who, what, and which (all of them can take the suffix -ever for emphasis). The pronoun who refers to a person or people; it has an oblique form whom (though in informal contexts this is usually replaced by who), and a possessive form (pronoun or determiner) whose. The pronoun what refers to things or abstracts. The word which is used to ask about alternatives from what is seen as a closed set: which (of the books) do you like best? (It can also be an interrogative determiner: which book?; this can form the alternative pronominal expressions which one and which ones.) Which, who, and what can be either singular or plural, although who and what often take a singular verb regardless of any supposed number.
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July 28, 2014
A great option for earning your intermediate grammar-nazi badge. I need to review this again, honestly.
February 15, 2021
Tried to learn proper grammar. Didn't work well. Got an A-. Things could be worse.
February 26, 2014
This book is okay, but there's a serious lack of practical application.
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