The Grammar Detective by Gillian Hanson
Simone Gilson
Simone Gilson isMarketing Executive at Continuum books. Email: sgilson@continuumbooks.com
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About the book
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 handillustrated. 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.
About the author
Gillian Mary Hanson taught English composition and literature at the University of HoustonDowntown for twenty-two years. She is the editor of the University Guide to College Writing.
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Publication Date: April 2008 ~ 168 Pages
PB 978 0 8264 9807 6
£8.99
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