Usage of English Grammar with Answers and CD-ROM (4th Edition - 2012)
Usage of English Grammar Fourth edition is a fully updated version of the classic grammar title. It retains all the key features of clarity and accessibility that have made this book so popular with students and teachers alike. This edition, with answers and CD-ROM, is ideal for self-study. The CD-ROM includes hundreds of interactive exercises to reinforce the language learned in the book.
This book is a successor to three editions (1998, 2003, 2009) of Garner’s Modern American Usage. With more than a thousand new entries and more than 2,300 word-frequency ratios, the magisterial fourth edition of this book-now renamed Garner’s Modern English Usage (GMEU)-reflects usage lexicography at its finest. Garner explains the nuances of grammar and vocabulary with thoroughness, finesse, and wit. He discourages whatever is slovenly, pretentious, or pedantic.
GMEU is the liveliest and most compulsively readable reference work for writers of our time.
Prepositions, Conjunctions & Punctuation Marks Prepositions and conjunctions are minor word groups but important all the same for effective communication. The wrong usage of prepositions and conjunctions could easily distort the meaning of your text. Prepositions, Conjunctions & Punctuation Marks helps the learner to understand prepositions and their usage. It also helps the learner to vary the length and type of sentences with the help of appropriate conjunctions. Due consideration is also given to the mechanics of writing—punctuation marks.
May I Quote You on That?: A Guide to Grammar and Usage
Though there is no shortage of English grammar and usage guides, Stephen Spector here offers a new approach, pairing grammar rules with interesting and humorous quotations from American popular culture. The book, which Spector has used informally in his introductory-level History of English course for over forty years, focuses on words and usage rules commonly misused or misapplied by undergraduate students - such as discreet/discrete, double negatives, the singular and plural verbs for "everyone," and the distinction between "that" and "which."
