The Big Ten of Grammar is not meant as a complete English grammar book.? Instead, it is an easy-to-use handbook that highlights the top ten grammatical errors that most of us tend to make on a regular basis.? It also has as a time-saving ?Bonus Section? that deals with ?out-of-the-norm? grammatical situations that, when needed, can take hours to look up and understand.??”The Bonus Section”?provides answers and examples for these less common situations that many of us will have to deal with from time to time.? After you read this book, you?ll want to keep it handy to use as a reference guide.

The Big Ten of Grammar is perfect for people with busy personal and professional lives who want to ?brush up? on their grammar without having to find their way through complicated grammar books. ?It is organized, formatted, and referenced in a way that makes it very easy to learn and to use, and it is based on scholarly research.? In no time at all, you?ll be speaking and writing more accurately.? It is especially good for high school and college students.

English grammar classes have historically emphasized learning umpteen rules of grammar and parts of speech. ?Many books still approach grammar in that way. ?But it doesn?t have to be that way?not any longer. ?The Big Ten or Grammar serves as a brief?refresher for people who want to learn (or re-learn) correct grammar quickly and easily. ?You?ll learn that it?s more about listening to yourself and others than about memorizing. ??You will learn to detect your own mistakes in no time at all, and you?ll soon be speaking and hearing grammar in a new way.

The Big Ten of Grammar provides many examples of correct and incorrect sentences, many more than most grammar books.? The person who is struggling to get a concept thoroughly in mind is helped by having a considerable number of examples, and the person who grasps the concept more quickly can skip the extra examples and move on to the next subject. Because the examples are from things I’ve actually heard people?say rather than just making up examples,?you will quickly identify with them and hear the differences between correct and incorrect grammar.

Dr. B