Scholastic Guide: Checking Your Grammar: Scholastic Guides [Paperback]

Marvin Terban (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Scholastic Guides

The best-selling grammar guide gets a fresh, new cover design for Fall 2002.

This easy-to-use reference book helps you edit your writing before someone else reads it.

Parts of speech * Irregular nouns and verbs
The 100 Most Commonly Confused and Misused Words
What Makes a Good Sentence
Capitalization * Contractions * Compound Words * Idioms Abbreviations * Punctuation * Spelling * Acronyms

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Reference (August 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590494554
• ISBN-13: 978-0590494557
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,773 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #7 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Reference & Nonfiction > General
  • #7 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Reference & Nonfiction > Language Arts > Grammar
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More About the Author

Marvin Terban's popular wordplay books for Clarion include IN A PICKLE AND OTHER FUNNY IDIOMS and TOO HOT TO HOOT: FUNNY PALINDROME RIDDLES. He lives in New York City.

Customer Reviews

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61 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for students of grammar, May 29, 1998

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This review is from: Scholastic Guide: Checking Your Grammar: Scholastic Guides (Paperback)

This is a wonderful reference for both children and adults alike. In fact, I am ordering 6 copies for my classroom so that my students can have an easily understood, well written guide to use as they muddle through all of the eccentricities of English Grammar.

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read Book on Grammar!, May 18, 2001

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David Stearns (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scholastic Guide: Checking Your Grammar: Scholastic Guides (Paperback)

This book is a masterpiece that everyone, student or adult, shouild read. It clearly illustrates the fundamentals of good writing and conveys complex ideas in an understandable way. Mr. Terban has clearly written the best grammar book on the market and every classroom should have a copy. Plus, it is a very useful tool for highschool student studying for the SAT's or SAT2's in writing. I highly advise anyone who wishes to improve his or her grammar to pick up a copy.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have for students, teachers, and writers, October 28, 2006

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Able Devildog "jackjack5" (PACIFIC PALISADES, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Checking Your Grammar (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Scholastic Guides (Pb)) (School & Library Binding)

A must have for anyone who writes or teaches writing or is learning writing. My 7 yr. old 2d grader loves this book but so do I as a writer and teacher. My son finds it easily understandable and it is written in such a way it is fun for him to use. As a result he is far ahead of most children his age in his writing skills.

What sets this book apart from other books or grammar is not only is it superbly organized but it has numerous examples which make the principles of grammar easily understood. That is one reason is is useful for a teacher in that it provides so many examples for use in the classroom.

The book begins with the theme of sentence buildng and the user learns how to build sentences. That is a valuable concept in both learning and teaching grammar.

I enthusiastically recommend it.