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The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Grammar and Punctuation

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I am an SAT tutor, and I use this book to teach grammar for the writing section ... with terrific results!

I am a writer and it is nice to have a small reference book that is straightforward and to the point. This book is easy to look up whatever I have in question. Money well spent. Love it!

This is a handy refereance for anyone who needs to help with grammar. It is to the point and wast no space with small talk. I really found it to be a great friend in my writing.

Please do not expect to learn anything worthwhile from a grammar handbook written by an author who cannot identify his own usage errors! Although the book's index lists pages that address misplaced modifiers, the title itself contains this very mistake: there is no such thing as a pocket idiot. The word pocket is intended to describe the book, not its audience; therefore, the corrected title would read "The Idiot's Pocket Guide to Grammar and Punctuation." At first I thought that the title of this book was intended as a joke, but scanning the sample pages provided on Amazon, I found numerous other grammatical errors such as the plural pronoun "they" being used to replace the singular subject "everyone." I found five grammatical errors in just the opening section, but I won't bother to list them all. Buy a better grammar handbook, and then see if you can identify the author's mistakes yourself. I am stunned that this author acquired a PhD in English.