Good Grief, Good Grammar: The Business Person's Guide to Grammar and Usage (Mass Market Paperbound) (ISBN-13: 9780449216811)

From the typing pool to top management, good grammar makes good business sense. A clear, concise writing style is the key to making your ideas stand out and keeping your career on track.

Dianna Booher, president of the Houston-based Booher Writing Consultants, offers an innovative, entertaining, step-by-step approach that makes the principles of grammar pleasant to learn and easy to remember. Whether you need to brush up on the basics or fine-tune your style, the answers are at your fingertips in Good Grief, Good Grammar. It's a comprehensive guide to:
-- Correct word usage
-- Sentence structure
-- Phrases and clauses
-- Voice, verb tense, and mood
-- Punctuation, spelling, and capitalization
-- Common errors such as split infinitives and dangling participles, and how to avoid them.

Plus a series of fun-to-take tests to gauge your language skills and your progress.

Author: Dianna Booher
ISBN-10: 0449216810
ISBN-13: 9780449216811
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 05/29/1989
Pages: 272
Format: Mass Market Paperbound
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.85h x 4.19w x 0.74d