Most students and many teachers think of grammar books as being, at best, necessary evils--but here's a book that breaks free from the pattern and takes the boredom out of grammar. Written primarily for children on the middle-school level, this book mixes parts of speech and proper punctuation with healthy portions of humor, down-to-earth examples, and fun illustrations that will appeal to adolescents. While kids are learning painlessly about how to make verbs agree with their subjects and pronouns with their antecedents, they look at some of the wackier words in the English language and see how they are often misused. A final chapter gives basic instructions for editing, which the author calls a fancy word for cleaning up messy writing.
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This review is from: Barron's Painless Grammar (Barron's Painless Series) (Paperback)
What I like about this book is it's easy to use. When you need help with grammar just look it up in the handy index. Yes this is a book on "basic" grammar, but isn't that what troubles the average Joe/Jane Blow in his or her everyday writing.The beauty of this book is its simplicity. Adults can benefit from Dr. Elliot's humorous approach used to keep eigth graders from falling asleep between reading about nouns and verbs. The best way to describe this book is it's a kids version of Strunk and Whites, "Elements of Style."
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An Excellent Grammar Check,
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This review is from: Barron's Painless Grammar (Barron's Painless Series) (Paperback)
I originally bought this book for my grade school age son. Months later, I began to write a series of fictional accounts of various things. This small book has been at my side constantly. It is an easy to use, well referenced little wonder of a tomb. I find the multiple examples helpful. It does the basic brush of grammar quite painlessly, as advertised. I am a college educated woman with more than eight years of post-graduate education. Yes, I have purchased a second copy for my son. He's not getting mine!
41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
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A nonintimidating grammar book!,
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This review is from: Barron's Painless Grammar (Barron's Painless Series) (Paperback)
If there is a way to make grammar painless, Dr. Elliott has done it. This book is delightful. My teenagers aren't even intimidated by fact it is a grammar book. It stays by our computer for every writing project, even mine.
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New York, Joshua Zinn, North Carolina, Addams Family, Myrtle Beach, United States, Fourth of July, John Bossman, Legs Long, The Wall Street Journal, Video Games Galore, Either Kate, Gotham City, Lady Bird, Loud Mouth, Neither Tina, One of the Martin, Pizza Hut, San Francisco New!
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It is a word that names a person, place, thing, idea, or quality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Joshua Zinn, North Carolina, Addams Family, Myrtle Beach, United States, Fourth of July, John Bossman, Legs Long, The Wall Street Journal, Video Games Galore, Either Kate, Gotham City, Lady Bird, Loud Mouth, Neither Tina, One of the Martin, Pizza Hut, San Francisco New!
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- Painless Grammar (Barron's Painless) by Rebecca Elliott Ph.D. in Front Matter
- Writing the Easy Way (Barron's E-Z) by Phyllis Dutwin M.A. in Back Matter
- Student Success Secrets by Eric Jensen in Back Matter
- How to Prepare for the COOP/HSPT/TACHS (Barron's COOP/HSPT/TACHS) by Kathleen Elliott in Back Matter
- Let's Prepare for the Grade 8 Language Arts Test by Michael Greenberg in Back Matter
- Painless Geometry (Barron's Painless) by Lynette Long in Back Matter
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