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Abrams' Guide to Grammar

Buy this book now!Using IconLogic’s proven "skills & drills" training approach, this user-friendly, concise grammar reference is designed for word people -- writers, editors, proofreaders, managers, support staff, and students. This is the same course you can take from a professional training company. Of course, you'd pay nearly $800. Now the course can come to you... at a fraction of the cost.

“Abrams’ Guide to Grammar” covers problems of grammar and punctuation. If you communicate by composing a letter, memo, report, or email you’ll benefit from this lively and instructional tutorial.

Here are some of the topics covered:

  • Sentence Fragments
  • The Run-On sentence
  • The Parts of Speech: Definitions
  • Commas with Independent and Dependent Clauses
  • Commas After Introductory Constructions
  • Commas and the Short Phrase
  • Interrupters
  • An Interrupter vs. The Conjunctive Adverb
  • Parenthetical Phrases or Clauses
  • Explanatory elements
  • Appositives
  • Possessive Case
  • The Pronouns Who and Whom
  • Verb Tense
  • Rules for Verb Tenses
  • Mood
  • Squinting Modifiers
  • Misplaced Modifiers
  • Dangling Modifiers
  • Careless Placement of Only
  • Verbal Phrase
  • Parallelism

This book also includes confidence checks and answer keys.

There is no faster way to master grammar... at any price!

Click here for some Grammar challenge exercises.


About the Author

Ellie Abrams is president of ESA Editorial and Training Services, Inc. Ellie has conducted training seminars to a wide spectrum of clients. Writers, editors, secretaries, managers, administrative staff, proofreaders, lawyers, educators, and scientists have befitted from her expertise. Ellie co-authored The New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style and Usage and STET Again!.

 

 

 

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