Painless Grammar

by Rebecca Elliott Ph.D.

Overview

Whether you’re a student or an adult looking to refresh your knowledge, Barron’s Painless Grammar provides review and practice in an easy, step-by-step format.

An essential resource for:

• Virtual Learning
• Homeschool
• Learning pods
• Supplementing classes/in-person learning

Inside you’ll find:

• Comprehensive coverage of English grammar, including parts of speech, punctuation, examples on constructing sentences by using grammar rules, and much more   
• Painless tips, common pitfalls, sample sentences, instructive tables and sidebars   
• Brain Tickler quizzes and answers throughout each chapter to test your progress

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506268101
Publisher:	Barrons Educational Services
Publication date:	10/06/2020
Series:	Barron's Painless
Edition description:	Fifth Edition
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	278,822
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	11 - 14 Years

About the Author

About the Author
Rebecca Elliott, Ph.D. earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After eight years of practice as a psychologist, she decided to pursue a double career becoming, as she says, “a therapist in the mornings and a farmer in the afternoons.” She opened a landscape nursery, and from there, she pursued her home gardening with vigor. Rebecca then turned her passion for horticulture into a writing career. She became a columnist for multiple gardening magazines, writing in an informal, witty style in an effort to translate the often-esoteric body of horticultural information into user-friendly language for the novice. Rebecca wanted to utilize her user-friendly writing style to make grammar and punctuation rules clear (and as painless as possible) for her then middle-school-aged son. Painless Grammar was a success, and it inspired Barron’s to publish the first of many books in the Painless Series.

About the Publisher
In the 1930s, Manuel H. Barron opened a bookstore in Brooklyn, New York. 

People from the community asked Mr. Barron about books that might be available to help their children study for the New York State Regents exams. After realizing there wasn't anything available, Mr. Barron created his own study guides.
80 years later, Barron's has helped millions of people prepare for their next step.

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book v

Chapter 1 Parts of Speech 1

Noun Pointers 2

Pronoun Pointers 11

Verb Pointers 19

Adjective and Adverb Pointers 34

Conjunction Pointers 42

Preposition Pointers 47

Interjection Pointers 51

Brain Ticklers-The Answers 52

Chapter 2 Building and Punctuating Sentences 61

Sentences, Fragments, Phrases, and Clauses 61

Road Signs: Punctuation 66

Highlights: Abbreviations, Symbols, Numbers, and Emphasis 113

Brain Ticklers-The Answers 119

Chapter 3 Agreement 133

Agreement Between Subject and Verb 133

Agreement Between Pronouns and Antecedents 141

Brain Ticklers-The Answers 145

Chapter 4 Words, Words, Words 151

Wacky Words We Love to Misuse 151

One Word or Two? 172

Confusing Pears 173

Brain Ticklers-The Answers 176

Chapter 5 Cleaning Up Messy Writing 183

The Fifteen Top Techniques for Correcting Messy Writing 183

Brain Ticklers-The Answers 206

Chapter 6 Writing a Good E-mail 213

Some Guidelines 213

The Old-Fashioned Way 219

Chapter 7 Getting It All Together 221

Editing a Paper 221

Index 227