Awesome grammar /
Becky Burckmyer
- New Delhi : Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd, c2018.
- 214 pages : 20 cm.
Includes index.
Chapter 1. Verbs: looking for some action -- Chapter 2. Pronouns: a special case -- Chapter 3. Adjectives: colorful! charming! correct! -- Chapter 4. Adverbs: the 4 H club -- Chapter 5. Conjunctions: strings for pearls -- Chapter 6. Prepositions: location, location, location -- Chapter 7. Agreement: maintaining good relationships -- Chapter 8. Possessives: where does the darned apostrophe go? -- Chapter 9. Parallel construction: not a hard-hat job -- Chapter 10. The right word: choose it and use it -- Chapter 11. Single or split? word pairs not to be confused -- Chapter 12. Tone: a melody in the right key -- Chapter 13. Good and bad repetition: rhetorical, yes; redundant, no -- Chapter 14. Scary writing: illogical, mystifying, and out of control -- Chapter 15. Appalling prose: believe or not, this stuff actually got published -- Chapter 16. Punctuation: on the road -- Chapter 17. Commas: all things in moderation -- Chapter 18. Capital letters: where, when, why -- Chapter 19. Abbreviations: the short of it -- Chapter 20. Numbers: rules of the game -- Index.