The Grammar Detective by Gillian Hanson
Simone Gilson, UK
Simone Gilson is Marketing Executive at Continuum books.
Email: sgilson@continuumbooks.com
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Do your students confuse their semi colons with their colons? Could they explain the difference between a noun and pronoun? If your answer is no, then The Grammar Detective is the ideal book to help you brush up on your grammar and demystify the confusions of punctuation!
The book is due to be published this April by Continuum; fun and engaging, it invites readers to get to grips with English grammar by solving a series of short murder mysteries, each of them hand-illustrated. It introduces aspects of grammar such as nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, clauses and phrases, and aims to demystify punctuation, explaining full stops, colons, semi-colons and speech marks through the use of exercises including word searches, crosswords and puzzles that help to introduce and reinforce grammatical skills and knowledge. Also provided are a full set of solutions, which create the ideal book for problem-solving groups or the individual budding Grammar Detective.
The Grammar Detective is an ideal introduction to English grammar; its unique, fun approach and the use of murder mysteries makes this a perfect book for students and a handy refresher course for those of us whose knowledge of grammar and punctuation is a little rusty.
Gillian Mary Hanson taught English composition and literature at the University of Houston-Downtown for twenty-two years. She is the editor of the University Guide to College Writing.
Publication Date: April 2008 ~ 168 Pages
PB 978 0 8264 9807 6
£8.99
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