When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People: How to Avoid Common Errors in English
- 3h 4m
- Ann Batko, Edward Rosenheim
- Red Wheel/Weiser
- 2004
Are you worried that how you speak or write is holding you back at work? Do you fear you're making frequent conversational errors, but just aren't sure what's correct? Ever stumble when choosing between "who" and "whom," "affect" and "effect," "lay" and "lie"? If so, then When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People should be at the top of your reading list. This comprehensive, easy-to-use reference is a program designed to help you identify and correct the most common errors in written and spoken English. After a short and simple review of some basic principles, this book is organized in the most useful way possible-by error type, such as "Problem Pronouns" or "Mixing up Words that Sound the Same." You choose how to work your way through, either sequentially or in the order most relevant to you. Each unit contains tests at the end to help you reinforce what you've learned.
About the Authors
Ann Batko is a business communications expert and a former Executive Editor of Rand McNally & Company. During her 20-year career, she has trained advertising, marketing, and publishing executives in effective writing and presentation skills. She lives in the Chicago area with her daughter, whom she is currently instructing on the proper uses of the subjunctive mood.
Edward Rosenheim is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor Emeritus in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago, where he taught for 42 years. Dr. Rosenheim is a Jonathan Swift scholar and has written a number of important books, articles, and reviews on this subject. For 20 years he was the editor of the prestigious journal Modern Philology.
In this Book
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Chapter 1: Perplexing Pronouns
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Chapter 2: Vexing Verbs
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Chapter 3: Ambiguous Agreements
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Chapter 4: Mangled Modifiers
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Chapter 5: Problem Prepositions
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Chapter 6: Confused Connections
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Chapter 7: Puzzling Plurals
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Chapter 8: Mixing up Words That Sound the Same
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Chapter 9: Mixing up Words That Look the Same
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Chapter 10: Mixing up Words Whose Meanings Are Related
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Chapter 11: Made-up Words
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Chapter 12: Wasteful Words and Infelicities
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Chapter 13: Mispronounced Words
