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3) The grammar bible: everything you always wanted to know about grammar but didn't know whom to ask
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xvi, 489 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
283 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"The story of how we got from he and she to zie and hir and singular they. Like trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms, pronouns are suddenly sparking debate, prompting new policies in schools, workplaces, even prisons, about what pronouns to use. Colleges ask students to declare their pronouns; corporate conferences print nametags with space for people to add their pronouns; email signatures sport pronouns along with names and titles. Far...
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Confusion abounds when a poorly spoken donkey says to a grammarian yam, "I Yam a Donkey!" This is a humorous introduction the different tenses of the auxiliary verb "to be."
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
" A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care? In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking...
15) French grammar
Author
Series
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xii, 386 pages ; 28 cm.
Description
Presents examples and practice exercises to supplement a review of the governing interrogatives, negative word constructions, and the forms and uses of pronouns, nouns, articles, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and numbers.
19) Painless grammar
Author
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Introduces the dos and don'ts of English grammar--ranging from punctuation to spelling and sentence construction--using humorous, down-to earth examples.
Author
Series
Publisher
Springer
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xix, 176 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"This book focuses on the most commonly made grammar mistakes by non-native English speakers. This means that you can set yourself a reasonable target. So rather than trying to learn all English grammar, just concentrate on those issues that tend to be used the most frequently and/or tend to create the most misunderstandings."--Amazon.com.
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