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Learn to get your ideas across clearly and correctly—the easy way

English Grammar All-in-One For Dummies is packed with everything you need to know to communicate with confidence—in your writing, on standardized tests, at work, on social media, and everywhere else. Strong verbal and written skills can help you get where you want to be, and this easy-to-understand Dummies guide will help you understand the English grammar principles you need to know so you can improve your understanding of basic grammar and punctuation rules, easily identify parts of speech, and communicate more effectively.

  • Learn the basics of punctuation—periods, commas, semicolons, and beyond
  • Write clearer e-mails and messages, or ace the writing section of your test
  • Navigate pronouns and make sure you’re using inclusive language
  • Practice with end-of-chapter quizzes and even more online practice

English Grammar All-In-One For Dummies is an excellent resource for students, professionals, job seekers, non-native-English learners, and anyone who wants to brush up on using this crazy language we call English.

Introduction 1(4)
About This Book
1(1)
Foolish Assumptions
2(1)
Icons Used in This Book
2(1)
Beyond the Book
3(1)
Where to Go from Here
3(2)
UNIT 1 EXPLORING GRAMMAR AND STYLE
5(30)
Chapter 1 Sampling the Ingredients of Grammar and Style
7(14)
What This Year's Sentence Is Wearing: Understanding Grammar and Style
8(1)
Getting to Know the Elements of Grammar and Style
9(1)
Parts of speech
10(1)
Parts of a sentence
11(4)
Small but important: Punctuating, capitalizing, and spelling
15(3)
Recognizing Your Grammar Profile
18(3)
Chapter 2 Adapting Language to Every Situation
21(14)
Grasping the Power and Limits of Standard English
21(1)
Adjusting Language to Suit Your Audience
22(1)
Wanna get something to eat? Friendspeak
22(2)
Conversational English
24(1)
Standard English
24(5)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
29(2)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 2 Quiz
31(2)
Answers to
Chapter 2 Quiz
33(2)
UNIT 2 EXPLORING PARTS OF SPEECH
35(84)
Chapter 3 People to See, Places to Go, Things to Remember: Recognizing Nouns
37(14)
Identifying Nouns
38(1)
Naming people with nouns
38(1)
Naming places with nouns
39(1)
Naming things with nouns
40(1)
Naming ideas and emotions with nouns
41(1)
Sorting Out Singular and Plural Nouns
42(1)
Adding the letters S or ES to form plurals
42(2)
Plurals that break the rules
44(1)
Attaching "This," "These," and Other Words to Nouns
45(2)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
47(2)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 3 Quiz
49(1)
Answers to
Chapter 3 Quiz
50(1)
Chapter 4 Meeting the Pronoun Family
51(14)
Working Hard: Pronouns and Their Jobs
51(1)
Replacing nouns
52(1)
Replacing pronouns
53(1)
Doubling back with -self pronouns
53(1)
Creating connections, asking questions
54(1)
Tracing Pronoun Traits
55(1)
Person and number
56(2)
Gender and number
58(1)
Case
59(2)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
61(2)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 4 Quiz
63(1)
Answers to
Chapter 4 Quiz
64(1)
Chapter 5 Existing and Acting with Verbs
65(22)
Expressing Meaning with Verbs
66(1)
Tense
66(1)
Number
66(1)
Mood
66(1)
Voice
67(1)
Meeting the Families: Linking and Action Verbs
67(1)
Linking verbs: A giant equal sign
68(1)
Forms of "be"
68(1)
Synonyms of "be"
68(1)
Savoring sensory verbs
69(1)
Lights! Camera! Action verb!
70(1)
Pop the Question: Locating the Verb
71(2)
Calling the Help Line for Verbs
73(1)
The big three
73(4)
Timing is everything: Creating a time frame with helping verbs
77(1)
Don't ask! Questions and negative statements
77(2)
Adding shades of meaning with helping verbs
79(2)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
81(3)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 5 Quiz
84(1)
Answers to
Chapter 5 Quiz
85(2)
Chapter 6 Two Real Really Good Parts of Speech: Adjectives and Adverbs
87(18)
Clarifying Meaning with Descriptions
88(1)
Adding Adjectives
88(1)
Adjectives describing nouns
89(1)
Adjectives describing pronouns
89(1)
Adjectives attached to linking verbs
90(1)
Pop the question: Identifying adjectives
90(1)
Articles: Not just for magazines
91(2)
Stalking the Common Adverb
93(1)
Pop the question: Finding the adverb
94(1)
Adverbs describing adjectives and other adverbs
95(2)
Choosing Between Adjectives and Adverbs
97(1)
Sorting out "good" and "well"
98(1)
Dealing with "bad" and "badly"
98(2)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
100(3)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 6 Quiz
103(1)
Answers to
Chapter 6 Quiz
104(1)
Chapter 7 Tiny but Mighty: Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections
105(14)
Proposing Relationships: Prepositions
105(1)
Prepositional phrases
106(2)
Pop the question: Questions that identity the objects of the prepositions
108(1)
Why pay attention to prepositions?
108(2)
Connecting with Conjunctions
110(1)
Improving flow and adding meaning with conjunctions
110(2)
Pairing up conjunctions
112(1)
Interjections Are Easy!
113(1)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
114(2)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 7 Quiz
116(1)
Answers to
Chapter 7 Quiz
117(2)
UNIT 3 BASIC ELEMENTS OF A SENTENCE
119(70)
Chapter 8 Who's Doing What? Identifying the Subject-Verb Pair
121(14)
Baring the Bones of a Sentence: The Subject-Verb Pair
121(1)
When One Is Not Enough: Compound Subjects and Verbs
122(1)
Pop the Question: Locating the Subject-Verb Pairs
123(1)
Popping the question for questions
124(1)
Unusual word order
125(1)
Not missing in action: Detecting you-understood
126(2)
Don't Get Faked Out: Avoiding Fake Verbs and Subjects
128(1)
Verbals
128(1)
"Here" and "there" sentences
129(2)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
131(2)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 8 Quiz
133(1)
Answers to
Chapter 8 Quiz
134(1)
Chapter 9 Handling Complements
135(16)
Getting a Piece of the Action: Complements for Action Verbs
135(1)
Receiving the action: Direct objects
136(3)
Rare, but sometimes there: Indirect objects
139(2)
No bias here: Objective complements
141(1)
Completing the Equation: Subject Complements
142(4)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
146(2)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 9 Quiz
148(1)
Answers to
Chapter 9 Quiz
149(2)
Chapter 10 When All Is Said and Done: Complete Sentences
151(24)
Completing Sentences: The Essential Subjects and Verbs
151(1)
Not flying solo: Verb forms ending in -ing
152(1)
Past verb forms that can't stand alone
153(2)
Do not "be" alone
155(2)
Complete Thoughts, Complete Sentences
157(2)
Reaching the End of the Line: End Marks
159(2)
Connecting Ideas
161(5)
Breaking Away from Sentence Fragments
166(1)
Placing fragments in the right context
166(1)
Steering clear of inappropriate fragments
167(2)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
169(3)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 10 Quiz
172(1)
Answers to
Chapter 10 Quiz
173(2)
Chapter 11 No Santas but Plenty of Clauses
175(14)
Grasping the Basics of Clause and Effect
175(2)
Sorting Subordinate and Independent Clauses
177(2)
Defining the Three Legal Jobs for Subordinate Clauses
179(1)
Describing nouns and pronouns
179(1)
Describing verbs, adjectives, or adverbs
179(1)
Acting as subjects, objects, or subject complements inside another clause
180(1)
Untangling Subordinate and Independent Clauses
180(2)
Deciding When to Untangle Clauses
182(1)
When you're picking a pronoun
182(1)
When you're deciding on the correct verb
182(1)
When you're figuring out where to put commas
183(1)
Choosing Content for Subordinate Clauses
183(2)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
185(2)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 11 Quiz
187(1)
Answers to
Chapter 11 Quiz
188(1)
UNIT 4 CLEARING UP CONFUSING GRAMMAR POINTS
189(92)
Chapter 12 Relax! Understanding Verb Tense, Voice, and Mood
191(32)
It's All in the Timing: Tense
191(1)
Simplifying matters: The simple tenses
191(3)
Using the simple tenses correctly
194(3)
Not picture-perfect: Understanding the perfect tenses
197(3)
Employing the perfect tenses correctly
200(4)
Speaking of the past and things that never change
204(2)
Romeo lives! Writing about literature and art in present tense
206(1)
The rebels: Dealing with irregular verbs
207(3)
Giving Voice to Verbs
210(1)
Getting Your Verbs in the Proper Mood
211(1)
Stating the facts: Indicative
211(1)
Commanding your attention: Imperative
211(1)
Discovering the possibilities: Subjunctive
212(4)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
216(4)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 12 Quiz
220(1)
Answers to
Chapter 12 Quiz
221(2)
Chapter 13 Agreement: Choosing Singular or Plural Verbs and Pronouns
223(18)
Agreeing Not to Disagree
223(1)
Making Subjects and Verbs Agree: The Basics
224(1)
Matching Subjects and Verbs in Some Tricky Situations
225(1)
Compound subjects
225(1)
Ignoring distracting descriptions
225(2)
Each and every
227(1)
Either and neither, alone or with partners
227(2)
Five puzzling pronouns
229(1)
The ones, the things, and the bodies
230(1)
Agreeing with Relative Pronouns
231(2)
Politics and Other Irregular Subjects
233(2)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
235(3)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 13 Quiz
238(1)
Answers to
Chapter 13 Quiz
239(2)
Chapter 14 Solving Pronoun Case
241(16)
While We're on the Subject: Choosing Pronouns to Act as Subjects
241(3)
Taking an Objective Viewpoint: Choosing Pronouns to Art as Objects
244(1)
Dealing with direct and indirect objects
244(1)
Are you talking to I? Prepositions and pronouns
244(2)
Attaching objects to verbals
246(1)
Knowing the Difference Between Who and Whom
247(2)
Attracting Appositives
249(1)
Picking Pronouns for Comparisons
250(1)
Dealing with Pronouns and -ing Nouns
251(2)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
253(2)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 14 Quiz
255(1)
Answers to
Chapter 14 Quiz
256(1)
Chapter 15 Getting Specific: The Power of Descriptions
257(24)
Creating Comparisons with Adjectives and Adverbs
257(1)
Ending it with -er or giving more to adjectives
258(2)
Creating comparisons with adverbs
260(1)
Breaking the rules: Irregular comparisons
261(2)
Resolving incomplete and illogical comparisons
263(5)
On Location: Placing Descriptions Correctly
268(1)
Troubling singles
268(2)
Misplaced descriptions
270(2)
Just hanging out: Danglers
272(2)
Avoiding confusing descriptions
274(2)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
276(3)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 15 Quiz
279(1)
Answers to
Chapter 15 Quiz
280(1)
UNIT 5 SPELLING, PUNCTUATION, AND CAPITALIZATION
281(110)
Chapter 16 Becoming a Better Speler Speller
283(14)
Following the Rules of English Spelling
283(1)
Changing Y to I
284(1)
I before E
285(1)
Double letters
286(1)
Dropping the silent E
287(1)
Taming Spelling Demons
288(1)
How does the word end?
289(1)
One or two?
290(1)
Which vowel?
290(1)
Checking the Dictionary for Spelling Help
291(2)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
293(2)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 16 Quiz
295(1)
Answers to
Chapter 16 Quiz
296(1)
Chapter 17 Little Hooks, Big Problems: Apostrophes
297(18)
The Pen of My Aunt or My Aunt's Pen? Using Apostrophes to Show Possession
298(1)
Ownership for singles
299(1)
Sharing the wealth: Plural possessives
299(3)
A few special possessions
302(2)
Shortened Words for Busy People: Contractions
304(1)
Making short work of common contractions
305(1)
You coulda made a contraction mistake
306(1)
Managing Tricky Contraction/Pronoun Pairs
307(1)
Its/it's
308(1)
Whose/who's
308(1)
Your/you're
308(1)
Their/there/they're
308(2)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
310(2)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 17 Quiz
312(1)
Answers to
Chapter 17 Quiz
313(2)
Chapter 18 Quotations: More Rules Than the Strictest Teacher
315(22)
And I Quote
316(2)
Punctuating Quotations
318(1)
Quotations with speaker tags
318(3)
Quotations without speaker tags
321(2)
Quotations with question marks
323(1)
Quotations with exclamation points
324(1)
Quotations with semicolons
325(1)
Quotations inside quotations
326(1)
Germ-Free Quotations: Using Sanitizing Quotation Marks
327(1)
Punctuating Titles: When to Use Quotation Marks
328(3)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
331(2)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 18 Quiz
333(1)
Answers to
Chapter 18 Quiz
334(3)
Chapter 19 The Pause That Refreshes: Commas
337(20)
Distinguishing Items: Commas in Series
338(2)
Using "Comma Sense" to Add Information to Your Sentence
340(1)
List of descriptions
341(1)
Essential or extra? Commas tell the tale
342(2)
Commas with appositive influence
344(1)
You Talkin' to Me? Direct Address
345(1)
Using Commas in Addresses and Dates
346(1)
Addressing addresses
346(1)
Punctuating dates
347(2)
Getting Started: The Introductory Comma
349(1)
Words not connected to the meaning of the sentence
349(1)
Phrases and clauses
350(1)
Punctuating Independently
350(2)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
352(2)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 19 Quiz
354(1)
Answers to
Chapter 19 Quiz
355(2)
Chapter 20 Useful Little Marks: Dashes, Hyphens, and Colons
357(16)
Inserting Information with Dashes
357(1)
Long dashes
358(1)
Short dashes
358(2)
H-y-p-h-e-n-a-t-i-n-g Made Easy
360(1)
Understanding the great divide
360(1)
Using hyphens for compound words
360(1)
Placing hyphens in numbers
361(1)
Utilizing the well-placed hyphen
361(1)
Creating a Stopping Point: Colons
362(1)
Addressing a business letter or an email
363(1)
Introducing lists
363(1)
Introducing long quotations
364(3)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
367(2)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 20 Quiz
369(1)
Answers to
Chapter 20 Quiz
370(3)
Chapter 21 Capital Letters
373(18)
Knowing What's Up with Uppercase
373(1)
Capitalizing (or Not) References to People
374(1)
Sorting out job titles
374(1)
Writing about family relationships
375(1)
Tackling race and ethnicity
376(1)
Capitalizing Geography: Directions and Places
377(1)
Marking Seasons and Other Times
378(1)
Capitalizing Work and School Terms
379(1)
Capitalizing Titles
380(1)
Headline style
380(2)
Sentence style
382(1)
?4U: Cn U AbbreV8?
383(2)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
385(3)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 21 Quiz
388(1)
Answers to
Chapter 21 Quiz
389(2)
UNIT 6 DEVELOPING STYLE
391(58)
Chapter 22 Adding Meaning with Well-Chosen Words
393(16)
Going Vivid with Verbs
393(1)
"There is" a problem with boring verbs
393(1)
Does your writing "have" a problem?
394(1)
Don't just "say" and "walk" away
395(2)
Pinpointing Meaning with Nouns and Descriptions
397(3)
Saving Time: Cutting Unnecessary Words
400(1)
Repetition
400(1)
Wordiness
400(3)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
403(2)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 22 Quiz
405(2)
Answers to
Chapter 22 Quiz
407(2)
Chapter 23 Grammar Gremlins
409(20)
Deleting Double Negatives
409(3)
Sounding Incorrect
412(1)
Scoring D minus
412(1)
Three terrible twos
413(1)
You gotta problem with grammar?
413(1)
Almost twins
414(3)
Pairs of Trouble: Complicated Verbs
417(1)
Sit/set
417(1)
Hanged/hung
417(1)
Rise/raise
418(1)
Lie/lay
418(1)
Lose/loose
419(1)
One Word or Two?
420(2)
Three for the Road: Other Common Errors
422(1)
Between/among
422(1)
Being that
422(1)
Try and/try to
423(1)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
424(2)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 23 Quiz
426(1)
Answers to
Chapter 23 Quiz
427(2)
Chapter 24 Writing Stylish Sentences
429(20)
Speaking Verbally
429(1)
Identifying verbals
430(2)
Choosing the correct tense
432(2)
Sprucing Up Boring Sentences with Clauses and Verbals
434(1)
Clauses
435(1)
Verbals
436(1)
Mixing It Up: Changing Sentence Patterns and Length
437(1)
Patterns
437(3)
Going long or cutting it short
440(2)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
442(3)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 24 Quiz
445(2)
Answers to
Chapter 24 Quiz
447(2)
UNIT 7 GRAMMAR IN ACTION
449(44)
Chapter 25 Adapting Your Style to Electronic Media
451(24)
Hitting the Screen with Formal or Informal Language
452(2)
Communicating Clearly in Texts, Tweets, and Posts
454(1)
Dropping words
454(2)
Dropping punctuation and capital letters
456(1)
Abbreviating
457(1)
Emailing Your Way to Good Grammar
458(1)
The heading
459(1)
The greeting
459(1)
The body
460(1)
The closing
460(1)
PowerPoint to the People
461(1)
Surveying presentation slides
462(1)
Writing titles
462(2)
Biting the bulleted list
464(5)
Autocorrect and Other Error Magnets
469(1)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
470(2)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 25 Quiz
472(2)
Answers to
Chapter 25 Quiz
474(1)
Chapter 26 Writing at School and on the Job
475(18)
A Is for Accomplished: Writing at School
475(1)
Essays and research papers
476(4)
Science reports
480(3)
Get to Work: Writing on the Job
483(1)
Letters
483(3)
Memos
486(2)
Practice Questions Answers and Explanations
488(2)
Whaddya Know?
Chapter 26 Quiz
490(1)
Answers to
Chapter 26 Quiz
491(2)
Index 493
Geraldine Woods is a grammarian and writer with more than 35 years experience teaching and writing about English. She is the author of English Grammar For Dummies, SAT For Dummies, and Research Papers For Dummies.