The Writer's Digest grammar desk reference /
A guide to grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and abbreviations, with a glossary of commonly misused words.
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Cincinnati :
Writer's Digest Books,
©2005.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Lutz, Gary, |d 1955- | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Writer's Digest grammar desk reference / |c Gary Lutz & Diane Stevenson. |
| 246 | 3 | |a Grammar desk reference | |
| 260 | |a Cincinnati : |b Writer's Digest Books, |c ©2005. | ||
| 300 | |a 354 pages ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- Part I: Grammar overview -- Nouns and verbs -- Modifiers and other parts of speech -- Phrases -- Clauses -- Part II: Grammar: rules, conventions, and errors to avoid -- Agreement of subjects and verbs -- Other errors in the use of verbs -- Parallelism -- Errors in modification: misplaced, dangling, and ambiguous modifiers -- Other errors in modification -- Personal pronouns -- Agreement of pronouns and their antecedents -- Reference of pronouns -- Faulty comparisons -- Faulty predication -- Mishandled elliptical constructions -- Two special problems with that -- Part III: Punctuation: Rules, conventions, and errors to avoid -- Terminal punctuation marks -- The comma -- The semicolon and the colon -- Parentheses and dashes -- The apostrophe -- Quotation marks and italics -- Specialized punctuation marks -- The hyphen -- Punctuating compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences -- Part IV: Mechanics and usage -- Capitalization -- The presentation of numbers -- Abbreviations -- Glossary of commonly misused words -- Appendix: Subject guide. | |
| 520 | |a A guide to grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and abbreviations, with a glossary of commonly misused words. | ||
| 590 | |a Fr. François Rossier, S. M. Memorial Collection | ||
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| 700 | 1 | |a Stevenson, Diane, |d 1947-2016. | |
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