Painless Grammar (Painless Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Rebecca Elliott Ph.d.
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Category: Book
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 1895
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0764134361
Dewey Decimal Number: 428.007
EAN: 9780764134364
Publication Date: August 1, 2006
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Product Description
This very approachable text combines instruction in parts of speech and sentence structure with down-to-earth examples, funny illustrations, and examination of some of the more amusing and peculiar words in the English language. A chapter on clear e-mail communication and etiquette is brand new in this edition, as are many of the author s challenging Brain Ticklers. Her helpful chapter on how to edit a school paper has also been heavily revised and updated.
Barron s popular Painless Series of study guides for middle school and high school students offer a lighthearted, often humorous approach to their subjects, transforming details that might once have seemed boring or difficult into a series of interesting and mentally challenging ideas. Most titles in the series feature many fun-to-solve Brain Tickler problems with answers at the end of each chapter.
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A Good User-Friendly Reference Book June 18, 2002
D. Martin (APO, AE United States)
42 out of 44 found this review helpful
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."
An Excellent Grammar Check May 8, 2005
Ted (USA)
34 out of 36 found this review helpful
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!
practical grammar book March 5, 2006
T. Wang (San Jose, CA USA)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
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.
Fabulous and clear! October 12, 2000
DVD Nut (San Francisco, CA USA)
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
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!
Fabulous and clear! October 13, 2000
DVD Nut (San Francisco, CA USA)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
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!
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