Comma Sense

A Guide to Grammar Victory

Ellen Feld

• Editorial: Mango
• Año: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781642507263
• Categoría: Languages & Linguistics
• Categoría: Grammar & Punctuation

Guide for Grammar, Spelling, Voice, and Sentence Structure

Comma Sense by Ellen Feld is a style guide for all things grammar. Learn the rules of adverbs, punctuation, abbreviations, prepositions, and much more. Feld shows you how to write technically, professionally, and personally.

Grammar for Everyone. Master English grammar with Ellen Feld. Comma Sense goes above and beyond the average spelling book. Professional writers, students, novices, and experts can benefit from learning or re-learning about apostrophes, em–dashes, and point of view: the basics of grammar and beyond. Become an expert on capitalization and punctuation, subjects and predicates, as well as contractions and possessives.

Test Your Knowledge. After every chapter, practice your new grammatical skills in this great grammar workbook. At the end of the book, a compressive test allows you to utilize all you have learned.

Inside, you'll find:

• The basics of grammar and beyond
• Sentence structure (how to avoid sentence fragments, mixed-up words, and run-on sentences)
• Quizzes to test your knowledge

Readers who enjoyed The Elements of Style; Actually, the Comma Goes Here; The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation; or The Perfect English Grammar Workbook will love Comma Sense: A Guide to Grammar Victory.

Chapter 1

The Great Eight
(parts of speech)

Introduction

Keywords:

◊parts of speech	◊article
◊verb	◊adverb
◊noun	◊conjunction
◊pronoun	◊preposition
◊adjective	◊interjection

Uh-oh. Here we go. Terms! Why do you need to know the names for things? The very idea of terms has alienated many a would-be grammarian. But not here and now!

Once you reframe the idea of terms, you’ll feel good about using them. Terms are great because they give us a way to talk about grammar. They provide a shared vocabulary for you and me so that we can understand each other. They give us a grammar lexicon. A lexicon is a vocabulary that’s specific to a group or subject. Grammar has its own lexicon.

You’re about to meet the eight parts of speech. If you’ve met them before, that’s okay. Sometimes we need to be reintroduced to get really familiar and comfortable with a topic.

You’ve probably heard about pronouns and conjunctions and prepositions and interjections, but do you have a clear idea of what they are? What’s an adverb, anyway? You’ll find out in this chapter as you begin to identify the different parts of speech and see how they fit together to make a sentence.

Lesson 1: Verbs...