Grammar to Go: The Portable A-Zed Guide to Canadian UsageThis convenient, portable guide provides straightforward solutions to the most common problems of Canadian English grammar and usage. Fully revised and expanded, this new edition of Rob Colter's bestseller contains four sections: Grammar and Style, Punctuation, Spelling, and Common Confusions. Within each section the entries are alphabetically arranged for easy reference. This is not a grammar book in the conventional sense of that dreaded word: grammar knowledge is not needed to find answers, and the wealth of explanations and examples make it easy to understand and use once they're found. If, for example, you want to know (once and for all) the difference between "it's" and "its," you don't need to know the relevant parts of speech. Simply look under the heading "It's/Its." This edition adds sections on source documentation, email, inclusive language, parallelism, ambiguity, and language simplification. The result is an indispensable grammar guide that belongs in every backpack, briefcase, or handbag. |
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acceptable active voice adjective adverbs Affect/Effect apostrophe avoid brackets British Canadian CN Tower Collective Nouns colon commas common confusions Common Era compound correct course dash describes double negatives e-mail English essential information Euphemisms example exclamation express Fernly forget found a hotel grammar and style Grammar to Go Inclusive Language indicate indirect speech issue list items means meant negative prefixes never non-essential information North American usage once a week onymous parentheses passive voice past tense person phrases plays tennis once possessive form preposition Principal/Principle pronoun pronunciation punctuation question mark quotation marks quoted reader refers remember replaced ROMAN NUMERALS Roy Rogers rule run the gantlet Run-on Sentences semicolon sense Sentence Fragments separate shear strength simply singular slash slow reflexes someone sound spelling and common Subject-Pronoun Agreement Subjunctive Mood synonym thing Toronto usually verb Who/Which/That wishes writing