Books by raymond murphy author of english grammar in use. The blue book of grammar and punctuation jane straus. An easytouse guide with clear rules, realworld examples, and reproducible quizzes jane straus. This handy workbook is ideal for teachers, students in middle school through college, esl students, homeschoolers, and professionals. Author of the original blue book of grammar and punctuation. You may also form an em dash by typing the first word, hitting the hyphen key twice, and then typing the second word. An easytouse guide with clear rules, realworld examples, and reproducible quizzes. The blue book of grammar and punctuation book king. Hyphens are often used to tell the ages of people and things.
An easytouse guide with clear rules, realworld examples, and reproducible quizzes 11th by straus, jane, kaufman, lester, stern, tom isbn. This guide is easytoread for all types of writers and includes notes for legal professionals. If youre fairly sure of your basic languagemechanics skills, however, you can use 501 grammar and writing questions by itself. One subscription may be used by an entire class or office simultaneously. The blue letter bible ministry and the blb institute hold to the historical, conservative christian faith, which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy of scripture. Turn to this handy reference for clear explanations and examples. The blue book of grammar and punctuation the blue book of grammar and punctuation. Since the text and audio content provided by blb represent a range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed in the resource materials are not. A handy rule, whether writing about years, months, or any other period of time, is to use hyphens unless the period of time years, months, weeks, days is written in plural form.
If a compound adjective comprises more than two words, we use as many hyphens as are needed. The em dash is perhaps the most versatile punctuation mark. A selfstudy reference and practice book for intermediate learners of english by. When our newspaper reprinted 200 community comments about the issue, only a handful were written using proper grammar. The blue book of grammar and punctuation book central. The blue book of grammar and punctuation book portland. Dashes are used to extend a sentence to replace colons, semicolons, or three dots. Grammar rules the blue book of grammar and punctuation. Clear explanations, examples of every grammatical point, and with the possible exceptions. The blue book of grammar and punctuation is a concise, entertaining workbook and guide to english grammar, punctuation, and usage.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. A semicolon may be used between independent clauses joined by a connector, such as and, but, or, nor, etc. A revised and updated new edition of the bestselling workbook and grammar guide the blue book of grammar and punctuation is a concise, entertaining workbook and guide to english grammar, punctuation, and usage. Grammar, punctuation, capitalization, usage, spelling, vocabulary, confusing words, synonyms and antonyms. The blue book of grammar and punctuation is a concise, entertaining workbook and guide to english grammar. This userfriendly resource includes simple explanations of grammar, punctuation, and usage. This userfriendly resource includes simple explanations of. Its longer than a hyphen and is commonly used to indicate a range or a pause. The blue book of grammar and punctuation book santa. A dash is a little horizontal line that floats in the middle of a line of text not at the bottom. The best punctuation book, period by june casagrande. Em dash thats the long dash, and as grammarist says, em dashes set apart parenthetical phrases or clauses in a sentence.
To form an em dash on most pcs, type the first word, then hold down the alt key while typing 0151 on the numerical pad on the right side of your keyboard. Cliffsnotes study guides are written by real teachers and professors, so no matter what youre studying, cliffsnotes can ease your homework headaches and help you score high on exams. Now in its tenth edition, the blue book is a masterpiece of clarity and usefulness. It doesnt take a lifetime to master english grammar and punctuation. For example, em dashes are used when a parenthetical remark contains an internal comma or would otherwise sound awkward if enclosed by commas. Apart from advanced grammar and punctuation checking, this tool offers detailed insights on its finding using 25 different reports, such as writing style report, sticky sentence report, pronoun report, consistency check, and more. Betweenwords hyphens with prefixes dashes 68 en dash em dash 4. Grammar and punctuation the blue book of grammar and. The blue book of grammar and punctuation, eleventh edition. An easytouse guide with clear rules, realworld examples, and reproducible quizzes by jane straus and mignon fogarty dec 14, 2007 4.
The elusive en dash when a compound adjective precedes a noun it is describing, we often need a hyphen. A revised and updated new edition of the bestselling workbook and grammar guidethe blue book of grammar and punctuation is a concise, entertaining workbook and guide to english grammar, punctuation, and usage. If youd like to ignore a suggestion, simply click the trash can icon to dismiss it. Its a minefield and wed rather leave this matter to the printers.
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The blue book of grammar and punctuation institute for excellence. I now know when to use an em dash, that there is such a symbol as an en dash and what the consensus is on writing out numerals in fiction. Topics include grammar, punctuation, capitalization, writing numbers, spelling, vocabulary. English grammar in use, by raymond murphy, cambridge university press blue book of grammar and punctuation.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the best punctuation book, period. The blue book of grammar and punctuation succeeds at a rare feat. Do not capitalize ordinary words after a semicolon. For example, the associated press ap stylebook is a guide specific for news media and journalists while the chicago manual of style cms is used by many book publishers and writers. Click on any underlined word or phrase to see grammarly s suggestion. There are several forms of dash, of which the most common are. Its a refresher for experts, a reference for lay people, and a lesson plan for teachers.
Read also about the difference between dashes and hyphens. Semicolons punctuation rules the blue book of grammar. Introducing the grammarly editor grammarly support. If you would like to log into bbbid, use this form below. Dashes are used to separate groups of words, not to separate parts of words like a hyphen does. An easytouse guide with clear rules, realworld examples, and reproducible quizzes from the w. Use the answer key at the end of the book not only. The blue book of grammar and punctuation is filled with easytounderstand rules,realworld examples, dozens of reproducible exercises, and pre and posttests. Our small city is currently debating a bond issue to build a recreation center. Hundreds of multiplechoice quizzes in html, pdf, and interactive formats. When grammarly detects a writing issue in your text, youll see a red, blue, green, or purple underline. With over 200,000 copies sold, this is one of the most highly trusted english language resources available.
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