The Good Grammar Guide by Richard Palmer
Book Description
Before any student can learn to write with clarity and style, one must have a solid, working knowledge of grammar. Written by an experienced, practicing English teacher who has taught university and secondary school students for years, The Good Grammar Guide provides sound and meticulous advice on parts of speech, inflections, syntax, and punctuation in a friendly and encouraging manner. Full of exercises for the reader to practice what they have learned, this book is for anyone who wants to improve their knowledge and usage of the fundamentals of grammar.

This collection comprises stories written in the late 1950s and early '60s, a period when Dick was also taking off as a novelist. Some of this has had an influence on his short stories, which are generally longer than before, and which, in some cases are early versions of what would eventually become novels such as the Simulacra and the Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

Generally speaking, these are all good to great stories...