Directory: Grammar

With 1998 Mla Style Manual Updates
by Winifred Bryan Horner, Suzanne Strobeck Webb, Robert Keith Miller

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A critically acclaimed guide to English usage. Includes more than 2,300 entries presenting the history, analysis, and recommendations regarding noted usage controversies. Entries are illustrated with more than 20,000 quotations from prominent writers.

This classic grammar and writing reference guide has helped over 5 million students become better writers. The Hodges' Harbrace Handbook, 14th edition, remains a grammar driven approach that has taught generations of writing students the best way to write and revise their papers.

The ultimate handbook of grammar for the innocent, the eager, and the doomed
by Karen Elizabeth Gordon. Playful and practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit and the blackest of humor. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.

by Priscilla S. Taylor and Mary Stoughton
The concept behind this book? Simple — and crucial for communicating in standard, correct English in the business world: Practice makes perfect when it comes to mastering the language. To be exact, practice makes perfect only when practitioners have a chance to zero in on problems and understand the solutions.

In The Fight for English, David Crystal offers a stimulating account of the struggle between various schools of grammar to control how we write and speak. Ranging back a thousand years, to the anguished concerns of Aelfric the Grammarian, and illuminating the contributions of Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, and many others, the book sheds light on ten centuries of warfare over spelling, punctuation, pronunciation, and much more.

An excellent compendium for people who need to be able to explain the difference between a coordinating conjunction and a subordinating conjunction. Be warned, though, that it takes a British perspective, and in many cases British and American terminology are not the same.

Looks at the history of punctuation and the rules governing the use of apostrophes, commas, dashes, hyphens, colons, and semicolons.