Grammar 101 (Paperback)

This easy-to-use handbook contains 101 simple rules that will help make students' writing letter-perfect—without the headache of complicated jargon.

Students and other readers of Grammar 101 will find dozens of useful tools and exercises herein, and will learn:

· How to notice slips between its and it's; their and they're—and other common mistakes no spell-checker will catch

· How fragments, double negatives, and run-on sentences weaken one's writing

· The distinctions between lie and lay, sit and set, rise and raise, and other frequently confused words

· Why it's easy to eliminate one of the most common mistakes in the English language—the misplaced apostrophe

· How to put punch into one's punctuation and grace into one's grammar