How to Avoid Making Common Grammatical Bloopers in Your Online and Offline Communications

  Just because you email more often than you hand write a thank-you note these days it doesn't mean that you have an excuse for your grammar to be sloppy.

Petaluma author/editor/English teacher Arlene Miller has written and published The Best Little Grammar Book Ever to salvage what is left of the lost art of grammatically correct communications - be they on instant message, Facebook, MySpace, within college and job applications, love notes or letters to Granny.

You heard it here a few months back and now that the book is officially hot off the sizzling press there is no time like the present to put a copy in the house and in the hands of soon-to-be graduating junior high, high school and college students. In short, anyone who has learned to depend upon spell check would find The Best Little Grammar Book Ever the best little resource to keep by the computer at home and at work.

A refresher on all the basics, the book includes a series of cheerful quizzes to highlight specific areas of correct writing and diction. If you share my morbid dread of having to define such delights as interjections, prepositions and conjunctions, order yourself a copy of Miller's user-friendly, handy-dandy, real-world grammar book and you will never have to be reminded of the difference between affect and effect again.

Comments

[Lindsey]

your so write, frances. Watt a grate book. I must by one!

[Frances]

problem with your keyboard?! I always hope my bloopers might be excused as typos!

[Lindsey]

I couldn't resist! Was just going to leave it at the 'your right' error but thought that might be too subtle. That's my biggest pet hate! It's used so often on facebook that I feel like writing notes on pointing it out....what a geek

[Arlene Miller]

Thank you for the review, Frances!!!!

Arlene