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For ages 13 to Adult
246 pages
83 full-color photos & illustrations
9"x9"

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ISBN: 0-9624166-6-5
ISBN13: 978-0-9624166-6-8
$9.99

The Scoop on Good Grammar is available for purchase.

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Here's the Scoop: By having the rules of grammar close by on your desktop, you'll be able to rebuild your confidence with language quickly and painlessly. Featuring a searchable PDF, memorable trivia, 83 colorful photos, a full index, and fun categories—exploration, art and invention, sports, food, movies and TV, travel, and poetry—this e-book is mega-easy. Start impressing friends and colleagues—and yourself—today!

In this 246-page e-book, you'll learn all about sentences, sentence fragments, punctuation marks, capitalization rules, and parts of speech. Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, interjections, and prepositions—they're all here!

Here are some of the everyday mistakes covered in this e-book:

- The Lopez's are here. (page 27)
- Welcome mat: The Ghirardelli's (page 32)
- Our mother-in-laws are wonderful! (page 36)
- Here's the childrens menu. (page 48)
- Let's keep this conversation between you and I. (page 59)
- On behalf of the group and myself, I want to thank you. (page 74)
- I appreciate you calling. (page 86)
- It's a two day class. (page 107)

With the assistance of such beloved cultural icons as Neil Armstrong, Lady Liberty, Leave It to Beaver, Shakespeare, bagels and cream cheese, Arthur Ashe, and The Thinker, the rules of good grammar will be easier than ever to learn.

The Scoop is full of cultural images: Mount Rushmore, tennis, the Statue of Liberty, ice cream, Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party—just to name a few. And each image in this grammar book relates to a story or a recipe or some fun facts. In other words . . .

Cultural images + Info + Grammar rules =
Getting the scoop in a fun and easy way!

Become Comfortable With Words: After just 26 lessons, you'll understand the rules about sentences, sentence fragments, punctuation marks, and capitalization. And the eight parts of speech—nouns, pronouns, prepositions, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, interjections, and conjunctions—will come together like an easy jigsaw puzzle.

Here comes another equation:

Knowledge = Confidence . . . on job interviews and on dates and at social get-togethers and in school.

The ABCs of This E-Book

A: As a PDF, this e-book is easily searchable. Some of the everyday mistakes you'll find covered in this book are as follows:

- The Lopez's are here. (page 27)
- Welcome mat: The Ghirardelli's (page 32)
- Our mother-in-laws are wonderful! (page 36)
- Here's the childrens menu. (page 48)
- Let's keep this conversation between you and I. (page 59)
- On behalf of the group and myself, I want to thank you. (page 74)
- I appreciate you calling. (page 86)
- It's a two day class. (page 107)

B: Categories Make Learning Fun. This e-book features seven cultural categories—Exploration, Art & Invention, Food, Sports, Classic Movies & TV, Poetry, and Travel—so there is something for everyone!

C: The Table of Contents Tells the Whole Story:

CHAPTER 1.
EXPLORATION & APOLLO 11: THE SENTENCE

• Definition
• Eight Parts of Speech
• Subjects and Predicates

CHAPTER 2.
ART & INVENTION: NOUNS, PRONOUNS, & PREPOSITIONS

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Luncheon of the Boating Party
• Nouns Defined

Lombard Street
• Plural Nouns

Mount Rushmore
• Plural Compound Nouns

Norman Rockwell, Bottom of the Sixth
• Plural Abbreviations, Numbers, Expressions, and Letters 

LeRoy Neiman, Tavern on the Green
• Possessives

Bell's Telephone
• Personal Pronouns and Prepositions

Rodin, The Thinker
• Relative, Demonstrative, Indefinite, and Interrogative Pronouns

Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa
• Intensive and Reflexive Pronouns

Shakespeare and Galileo
• Pronouns After ”Than“ and ”As“

CHAPTER 3.
FOOD: ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS

Cupcakes
• Adjectives Defined

Chocolate Birthday Cake
• Up Close: A or An?

Pizza
• Comparative Adjectives

Forgotten Cookies
• Compound Adjectives

Bagels
• Adverbs Defined

Potato Chips
• Up Close: Really and Surely

CHAPTER 4.
SPORTS: VERBS

Skating
• Action and Linking Verbs

Baseball
• Helping Verbs

Basketball
• Agreement

Soccer
• Timing

Cycling
• Here and There

Tennis
• Was or Were?

Golf
• Split Infinitives

CHAPTER 5.
CLASSIC MOVIES & TV: CAPITALIZATION

Titles • Directions • Mom, Dad, etc. • Professional Titles • School Subjects • Other Works • Adjectives Derived from Proper Nouns • Seasons • Pronouns, First Letters • Salutations/Closings • Variety Hour
 

CHAPTER 6.
POETRY & PUNCTUATION: THE STATUE OF LIBERTY & THE EIFFEL TOWER

Periods, question marks, exclamation points, ellipses, quotation marks, brackets, colons, commas, parentheses, semicolons, and dashes

CHAPTER 7.
TRAVEL TO HAWAII: SPECIAL WORDS

All/All of • All Ready/Already • All Together/Altogether • Angry With/At • Bring/Take • Complement/Compliment • Can/Can’t Hardly • Could/Couldn’t Care Less • Different From/Than • Every Day/Everyday • Farther/Further • Fewer/Less • Imply/Infer • Lie/Lay • Like/As • Of With ”A Couple,“ Of With Dates • Principal/Principle • Stationary, Stationery • Than/Then • Wait On/For • Unnecessary Prepositions

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For more information on the subject of grammar, try these sites—and keep learning:

Click here for the Chicago Manual of Style.

Click here for Bryan Garner's Law Prose.

Click here for the AP Style book.

Click here for GrammarBook.com.

Click here for the Gregg Reference Manual.

Click here for the Grammar Girl.