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Back to Grammatically Correct Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Best Grammar/Punctuation/Word Usage book I've seen Comment: I recommend Grammatically Correct to every writer I know. It's unparalleled for its range of topics and ease of use. Use it as a reference book to look up proper punctuation or read it cover to cover for a thorough grounding in writing rules. Stilman is easy to understand and provides plenty of examples. My hardcover copy is flagged with post-it notes, marked with yellow highlighter, and heavy with paper clips. Grammatically Correct is my first choice when I need to check punctuation, grammar, or word usage. A recommended book for any serious writer, the not-so-serious writer, and anyone looking for a complete reference source in one book. Buy this one for the writer in your life. Especially if that writer is you. Customer Rating: Summary: A Writer's Right hand! Comment: It is not an exciting book to read but it was never intended to be entertainment. It is just what it says it is - a guide to punctuation, spelling, style, usage and grammar. As a writer of books and articles, I have myself reaching for this book often. I must admit that I have actually sat down and read this book from cover to cover several times looking for things I did not know or had forgotten. I would think that most sane people would never attempt to do that stunt at home! I bet if I proof read this review against what the book would recommend that it would find fault with how I punctuated it and also with my style. In any case, do not use me as an example of how well it teaches one to write! Now you can see why I keep the book around and have to use it as often as I do. I think my book review makes the point very clearly that the book is indeed needed by writers! Customer Rating: Summary: Brilliant Comment: This book is brilliant. I cannot praise it enough. Very very readable, and explains the concepts clearly. Infintely better than the rubbish that is "Eats shoots and leaves". Customer Rating: Summary: hey cool lil english reference book Comment: works well in tight spots. wish it would give a sequential grammer -figures of speech Customer Rating: Summary: This book mostly delivers what it promises. Comment: I bought this book because I was looking for a guide to grammar and some of its trickier aspects. This book is direct and fairly thorough. It addresses many of the problems that people have with spelling, pronoun-antecedent agreement, punctuation use, etc. The instruction is concise and nearly always contains both incorrect examples and corrected examples of the particular topics. Some topics even include exercises to test the reader's knowledge. I would have liked to have seen more exercises, but the book would serve its intended purpose just as well if it had no exercises at all. This is a great book for brushing up on some of the finer points of grammar. Back to Grammatically Correct Showing page 2 of 6 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |

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