Good Grief, Good Grammar Book

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.

From simple nouns to complex sentences, good grammar is essential in the business world. This unusual guide features something many grammar books don't--humor. Whimsical therapy sessions at the end of each chapter make sharpening skills painless.