Grammar for Grown-ups

Agitated about apostrophes?Struggling with spelling?Dithering over dangling participles?Stumped by the subjunctive?Relax. Help is at hand...For native English speakers who realise that there is more to good English than meets the eye, but don't know where to start, for parents struggling to explain the finer details to their kids, and for English- language students everywhere . . . this is the only book you need.Grammar for Grown-Ups guides you through the perils, pitfalls and problematic aspects of the English language, with fun test-yourself sections all the way.

A comprehensive but light-hearted guide to grammar for the twenty-first century.

Agitated about apostrophes?
Struggling with spelling?
Dithering over dangling participles?
Stumped by the subjunctive?

Relax. Help is at hand...

For native English speakers who realise that there is more to good English than meets the eye, but don't know where to start; for parents struggling to explain the finer details to their kids; and for English- language students everywhere . . . this is the only book you need.

Grammar for Grown-Ups guides you through the perils, pitfalls and problematic aspects of the English language, with fun test-yourself sections all the way.

Préface
A comprehensive, informative but light-hearted guide to grammar for the twenty-first century - whether you who know a little bit, or nothing at all about good, plain, grammatical English, this is the only book you need.

Auteur

Katherine Fry and Rowena Kirton

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GRAMMAR FOR GROWN-UPS
A straightforward guide to good English

Agitated about apostrophes?
Confused by conjunctions?
In a dither over dangling participles?
Tense about your tenses...Or stumped by the subjunctive?
Relax. Help is at hand.

For native English speakers who realise that there's more to good English than they know, but don't know where to start; for parents struggling to explain the finer points to their kids; and for English language students everywhere... And whether you who know a little bit, or nothing at all about good, plain, grammatical English, this is the only book you need.
Grammar for Grown-ups guides you through the perils, pitfalls and problematic aspects of the English language, with fun test-yourself sections all the way, so you'll never struggle to find the right word or write the most elegant sentence again.