Abrams' Guide to Grammar

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.

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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!.