Checking Your Grammar: Scholastic Guides

by Marvin Terban

Publication August 1, 1994 | Age 8 and up | Scholastic Guides The best-selling grammar guide gets a fresh, new cover design for Fall 2002. This easy-to-use reference book helps you edit your writing before someone else reads it. Parts of speech * Irregular nouns and verbs The 100 Most Commonly Confused and Misused Words What Makes a Good Sentence Capitalization * Contractions * Compound Words * Idioms Abbreviations * Punctuation * Spelling * Acronyms

Genres: Reference, Education

144 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1993

Reviews

[J.L. Slipak · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is geared toward middle-grade young writers who are struggling with issues of grammar use. This is one of the many Scholastic Guides out there for students.

With that said, I added this book to my resource shelf because every now and then, I find myself needing to refresh my memory about grammar usage.

This book is divided into three sections, Building Sentences, Parts of Speech, Style and Usage, the latter being the most helpful, I found, to writers. Of course the entire book is good if you struggle with English Grammar.

Although simplistic, this book offers examples, tips and words lists that will help explain concepts.

It's a great, quick refresher to own! Put out by Scholastic, this book is an excellent teaching device for any child too!

[Eric Shaffer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book cover to cover for the fun and the review. Marvin and I have minor disagreements on the rules of punctuation and grammar, but I've never seen a better, more thorough, or more excellently accessible book covering nearly every necessary aspect of punctuation, grammar, and usage. Thank you, Marvin, for your good, hard work.

Scholastic sets the age range from 9 to 12 years of age, but I invite anyone of all the above ages to consult this book with questions or curiosity.

If every writer of English on the planet read this text, many would find the answers to niggling questions that have hovered behind their eyes for years.

I recommend this text highly.

[Ananth]

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[J Crossley · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a grammar book geared more towards school-aged children.