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Barron's Painless Grammar (Barron's Painless Series)

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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."

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!

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.

As a retired high school teacher of 10th and 11th grades, I wish I had had this resource for my students. More formal usage books are not only colder and more frightening-looking but are usually much less functional than this book in actually helping the student to write clearly and well. I wish that I had written it!

Rebecca Elliott has created a very accessible grammar book. She gave good down-to-earth explainations for grammar rules.

There are a lot of paired examples of wrong usages and correct usages. Coverage includes common grammar issues, punctuations, and procedures of self-editing.

After looking at dozens of grammar texts for my homeschooled girls (ages 10 and 12) I decided to check out "Painless Grammar." What a breath of fresh air! It's not only informative and well written, it's full of comical English errors. My girls love to use it and are learning more because it is written toward children making it more fun to learn. I highly recommend its use to everyone.

As a retired high school teacher of 10th and 11th grades, I wish I had had this resource for my students. More formal usage books are not only colder and more frightening-looking but are usually much less functional than this book in actually helping the student to write clearly and well. I wish that I had written it!

User-friendly, easy to understand, clear instructions ... great grammer reference book for students.

This book covers all the things your english teacher forgot or that you forgot. A great refresher book that everyone should have in their book bag. Great for all ages!

With a few exceptions, this book is an excellent guide to proper usage. If you need to brush up on your grammar and punctuation, this will do quite nicely.