Arlene Miller

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The Best Little Grammar Collection Ever! (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

The Best Little Grammar Collection Ever! combines three of The Grammar Diva's books to create a complete grammar reference: 1) The Best Little Grammar Book Ever! is used by many schools and colleges. It is an easy-to-use grammar and punctuation guide that includes a writing lesson and a complete index. It also contains lists of commonly misspelled and mispronounced words and a glossary of grammar terminology. Contents include the parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, dead words to avoid, double negatives, unclear pronouns and antecedents, agreement, comparison, misplaced modifiers, possessives, verb tense, irregular verbs, parallel structure, formatting lists, restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses, linking verbs, capitalizing titles, spelling out numbers, fragments and run ons, using jargon and slang. 2) The Best Little Grammar Workbook Ever! takes the information in the reference book and puts it into workbook format with over 100 exercises and quizzes, and a complete answer key in the back. Measure your growth with a comprehensive pretest and a final test. 3) Does Your Flamingo Flamenco? contains over 250 confusing word pairs, word groups, and idioms that challenge us all, for example, affect/effect, lay/lie, principal/principle, who/which/that, buck naked/butt naked. Information is presented in alphabetical order for ease of use. The Best Little Grammar Collection Ever! is Intended for ages 10 to 110 and should be on everyone's bookshelf! Approximately 390 pages (in print format).

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Autor

Arlene Miller, The Grammar Diva, is the author of nine grammar books, a self-publishing book, and a novel: The Best Little Grammar Book Ever, first and second editions The Best Little Grammar Workbook Ever The Best Little Grammar Collection Ever Does Your Flamingo Flamenco? Fifty Shades of Grammar Correct Me If I'm Wrong The Great Grammar Cheat Sheet Beyond Worksheets The Best Grammar Workbook Ever I Wrote a Book: Now What? The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Self-Publishing Four College Girls and a Purple Boa Her grammar books are used by schools and colleges. The Best Little Grammar Book Ever won Best Reference Book from the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association in 2011. The Best Grammar Workbook Ever won honorable mention at the New York Book Festival in 2016. And Fifty Shades of Grammar won Best Book Runner Up in 2016 from the Bay Area Independent Book Publishers Association. Arlene is from the Boston area, where she went to school and worked until 1993, when she and her family relocated to Sonoma County, California. She started her writing career as a newspaper reporter and editor before becoming a technical writer in the 1980s. She has won two awards of excellence from the Society of Technical Writers. More recently, Ms. Miller has been a freelance book editor and blogger. She also taught for the California public schools for 11 years. Arlene holds a B.A. in English and Journalism and an M.A. in Humanities, as well as teaching and school administration credentials. She conducts grammar and writing workshops based on her book. And if you don't believe that grammar can be humorous and entertaining, listen to one of her grammar talks! She is also an accomplished tap dancer and an award-winning poet. She has two grown children and currently lives in beautiful wine country, California. See her website at www.bigwords101.com for more information or to set up a workshop. Sign up to receive the weekly Grammar Diva Blog Post and get a free grammar mini-book download.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: bigwords101
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780998416540
• Artikelnr.: 50717352