Grammar Doesn’t Have to Be Difficult
Grammar is difficult for a lot of people, but it doesn’t need to be. The biggest hurdle to learning grammar is the terminology. Most books, and most teachers, use grammatical terms when they’re not necessary. While researching my book, I ran across the following terms on more than a few websites and in books. If you eliminate the terms that confuse people, you’ll learn grammar the easy way.
- virgule
- vocative
- appositive/apposition
- elide
- gloss
- antithetical
- indicative mood
- imperative mood
- subjunctive mood
- genitive case
- accusative case
- dative case
- subjective case
- objective case
- vocative case
- nominative case
The fact is they didn’t need to use any of those words. It sometimes seems as if they used those words to confuse people. To give you an idea, take the first word in the list: virgule. A virgule is simply a slash (/). That’s it. So why not say slash?
With Simply Put: The Plain English Grammar Guide, you won’t find any such nonsense. If I use a grammatical term, it’s explained.
The book is more than 900 pages and covers almost all grammar issues, plus a lot of issues found in style guides. It has been professionally edited and indexed (print only for indexing). Below is the cover and description.
Learn Grammar the Easy Way
Description
Does the world need another grammar book? I think so. And it needs one because many of the existing books are filled with explanations using grammatical terms that many people don’t understand, and the people who do understand don’t need the book. It’s time to learn grammar the easy way.
Like all my grammar books, I have done everything possible to explain things clearly and without resorting to grammatical terms or complex explanations. Everything is in plain, simple English.
Items covered in the book include:
* Parts of Speech
* Punctuation (all fourteen of them)
* Grammar Myths
* Miscellaneous
* How to Use Numbers When Writing
* Abbreviations, Initialisms, and Acronyms
* Linking Verbs
* Subject/Verb Agreement
* Latin Abbreviations
* (much more)
* Plurals
* Redundancies
* Misused Words
* Capitalization
* Usage Issues
* Punctuation of Dialogue
With more than nine hundred pages, the book is a comprehensive reference for grammar. It also shows many of the issues where the AP Stylebook and the Chicago Manual of Style disagree.
The most important thing is that the book explains everything in plain English so as not to be confusing. It is easy to understand and grasp for any reader. Only a basic understanding of grammar is necessary.
It is available in all major retailers, including Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google, and Kobo.
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Giacomo Giammatteo is the author of gritty crime dramas about murder, mystery, and family. And he also writes nonfiction books including the No Mistakes Careers series as well as books about grammar, publishing., and children’s fiction and nonfiction.
When Giacomo isn’t writing, he’s helping his wife take care of the animals on their sanctuary. At last count, they had forty animals—seven dogs, one horse, six cats, and twenty-five pigs.
Oh, and one crazy—and very large—wild boar, who used to take walks with Giacomo every day.
He lives in Texas, where he and his wife have an animal sanctuary with forty loving “friends.“
Mike Landis
Giacomo Giammatteo
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