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Fine, Edith Hope, author.

Nitty-gritty grammar : a not so-serious guide to clear communication / Edith H. Fine and Judith P. Josephson.

Berkeley, California : Ten Speed Press, 1998.

ix, 102 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Is your participle dangling? Have you misplaced your modifier? maybe you're one a growing number of Americans who aren't quite sure what those grammar terms mean and would welcome a fun, easy, surprisingly hip little language guide to clear it all up.

English language -- Grammar.

Josephson, Judith Pinkerton, author.

"A Kirsty Melvile book"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (page 97) and index.

pt. I. Words at work -- Verbs -- Nouns -- Pronouns -- Prepositions -- Adjectives -- Adverbs -- Interjections -- Conjunctions -- pt. II. Building blocks -- The sentence -- The subject -- The predicate -- Diagramming -- Clauses and phrases -- Pronoun reference problems -- Misplaced modifiers -- Dangling participial phrases -- Kinds of sentences -- pt. III. Punctuation pointers -- Periods -- Commas -- Semicolons -- Colons -- Parentheses and dashes -- Apostrophes -- Quotation marks -- Hyphens -- Questions marks -- Exclamation points -- pt. IV. Word power --Spelling -- Pronunciation -- Speaking of grammar! (oral errors) -- Capitalization -- Easy mix-ups.

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