"Periods are busy. They don't mess around. They have very important jobs! Periods say, "STOP". They tell us when a sentence ends, and they help us shorten words. Follow along and learn all about hardworking periods."--Page [4] of cover.

Fun, funny, and factual--the most complete guide to punctuation for beginners and experts alike. Period. No one's ever said that learning punctuation is fun--until now. Actually, The Comma Goes Here takes a lighthearted yet highly informative approach to ensuring you never misplace a comma again.

"Period wants to write a story, but he can't find the words. He enlists the help of some punctuation pals and together they not only find the words, they come up with quite a story"--

When upper case letters disappear from Capital City, Question Mark calls on Private I to investigate.

Offers advice on improving writing skills and promoting a style marked by simplicity, orderliness, and sincerity.

This book is a combination of No Mistakes Grammar volumes I, II, and III. But it's so much more. It has some new material, but it also has about 200 pictures. That's right-pictures. This is one of the world's first, if not the first, visual grammar book. Most people learn better with pictures. With Visual Grammar, you get images that show examples of the words you're learning. Not every word has a picture but a lot of them do. This book includes misused...

These are interesting times for word nerds. We ate, shot and left, bonding over a joke about a panda and some rants about greengrocers who abuse apostrophes. We can go on Facebook and vow to judge people when they use poor grammar. Could you care less? Does bad grammar or usage "literally" make your head explode? Test your need for this new book with these sentences: "Katrina misplaced many residents of New Orleans from their homes." "Sherry finally...

Verbs and tenses are one of the most difficult parts of the English language for learners. There seem to be so many different tenses and structures that are not simple. I have compiled this book to help make verbs easier to understand. The book is in five parts: Chapter 1 The basics Here we look at the main terms used to describe different kinds of verb, eg transitive and intransitive. Chapter 2 Tenses In this section, we explain the wide range of...

Lo que escribimos es, sin duda, espejo de lo que somos. Las palabras aparecen vacías, porque los tiempos en que vivimos devoran la espiritualidad del hombre y enaltecen las apariencias en pro del interés material: todo vale -hasta el error- si es sinónimo de conveniencia. Entonces, las voces brillan de manera artificial, porque ya no se pesan los significados. Es lo mismo un anacoluto que una oración ordenadamente construida, una preposición...

Ce livre est une grammaire pédagogique destinée aux étudiants universitaires et, de façon plus large, à des adultes qui étudient le français, langue seconde. Chaque concept grammatical est expliqué de manière simple et concise, et est illustré par plusieurs exemples. Ces explications sont suivies de « mises en pratique » permettant aux apprenants de consolider l'apprentissage des concepts en s'entraînant à les repérer et à les utiliser...