"perfect grammar" - penguin guide to english grammar & punctuation ***
a friend gave me this little pocket edition a few weeks ago because she knew how much i loved correct (and correcting) grammar and punctuation. it was a good overview of the basic parts of speech, sentence structure and common errors (that that iiiii made any of them heh heh) although because it was such a concise book there weren't enough examples of the more complex aspects of grammar to help you understand. my head hurt - i hadn't thought of phrases as nouns or verbs as adjectives before... a good refresher in many ways but i doubt i would be changing my speech as a result.
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i just got bill bryson's 'mother tongue' and am also excited to read about grammar and its evolution!
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