Pinckert's Practical Grammar: A Lively, Unintimidating Guide to Usage, Punctuation and Style

by Robert C. Pinckert

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898792118
• Release Date: February 1986
• Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Should be more popular

I don't know why this book isn't more popular. Grammar and usage is about language, and language is about communication. The style of language you use either distracts from or contributes to communication, so you tune your language to your reader or listener. In other words, correct usage depends on context. While certainly not a comprehensive reference, this book provides valuable insights to those of us who tend to be overly compulsive about formal grammar. Recommended.

Very helpful, not overly technical

This book is entertaining as well as educating. The author approaches grammar from a slightly different point of view than just talking about subjects, verbs, etc., although parts of speech aren't ignored. He assumes if you can speak correctly, you can write correctly. It is equally about lazy speech (Formal vs Informal) as it is about writing.Exercises are scattered throughout the text, and the author often uses the very type of mistake he's discussing in the paragraph where he discusses it to draw attention to the problem.I highly reccommend it.