My Grammar and I (or should that be 'Me'?)
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- Caroline Taggart (Écrivain)
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Grammar Rules (To Avoid)
1. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
2. Remember to never split an infinitive.
3. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
4. Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice.
5. User words correctly, irregardless of how others elude to them.
6. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed.
7. Eliminate unnecessary references. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "I hate quotations."
8. Who needs rhetorical questions?
9. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
10. Last but not least, avoid clichés like the plague.
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Bien présenté, précis et concis, ce petit ouvrage vous permettra de peaufiner votre anglais dans les détails. Excellent pour ameliorer ses connaissances, se lit comme un roman.
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Can you tell when a sentence contains more cliches than you've had hot dinners, or if it's tautological and pointlessly repetitive? Is a preposition necessarily a bad thing to end a sentence with? Are you able to immediately spot a split infinitive? Or understand how, being accidentally misplaced, you can wreak nonsensical havoc with your modifiers?
The English language is a veritable minefield of dos and don'ts, but this book explains the rules of our troublesome tongue in a humorous way, highlighting the most common mistakes of which we can all be guilty. Whether your schooling in English grammar amounted to 'a verb is a doing word and a noun is a naming word,' or whether you simply want to brush up your existing skills, this wittily observed yet informative book is guaranteed to enlighten and entertain.
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