TY - BOOK AU - Booher,Dianna Daniels TI - Booher's rules of business grammar: 101 fast and easy ways to correct the most common errors SN - 9780071486682 (pbk. : acidfree paper) AV - PE1115 .B626 2009 U1 - 428.2/02465 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill KW - English language KW - Business English KW - Grammar N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-287) and index; Acknowledgments -- Introduction: No louding -- Part 1: Verbosity About Verbs: The Big Blunders -- 1: Let's dialogue about verbing words : turning perfectly fine nouns into verbs -- 2: She went missing: sucking the life out of strong verbs -- 3: Staying regular: irregular verbs -- 4: He don't understand: the irregular verb to do -- 5: They had went to my office earlier in the day: the irregular verb to go -- 6: He come back from overseas early: the irregular verb to come -- 7: I seen him leave: the irregular verb to see -- 8: Lie or lay before I knock you off your feet: the lie/lay limbo -- 9: He came, he saw, he conquered: don't be lax about tense changes -- 10: If I was you: wishful thinking and the subjunctive mood -- 11: Pushy people demanding their way: the subjunctive mood continued -- 12: There's problems with that!: expletive deleted -- 13: I wish I may, I wish I might could you tell me which verb to use tonight? : the may/might dilemma -- 14: Sue is one who: the one of a kind or one of a category argument -- 15: Separation anxiety: subjects and verbs that get split apart -- 16: Which end is up?: complements of the verb or the chef -- 17: Acting alone or with accomplices?: verbs after collective nouns -- 18: None of your business: definitely indefinite pronouns -- 19: Total 'em up: verbs with time, money, quantities, fractions, and percentages -- 20: Kaleidoscope effect : a and the before amounts -- 21: Seesaw effect: either/or, neither/nor, not only/but also -- Part 2: Pesky Pronouns: The Understudies -- 22: Just between you and I: the case for objective pronouns -- 23: Me and Pongo know him: the case for nominative pronouns -- 24: Me, myself, and I: reflexive pronouns flexing their muscles -- 25: To whom it may concern: who versus whom -- 26: She's taller than me: pronouns after than -- 27: You know what they always say about that: unclear references -- 28: Which hunts: that versus which -- 29: Is Shamu a who?: people who or that? -- Part 3: Modifier Mishaps -- 30: Misplaced modifiers that mystify: putting them in their place -- 31: Can you hook me up?: dangling modifiers -- 32: Which is what I always say: dangling whichs -- 33: Troublesome twosomes: one word or two? -- 34: Learn this backwards and forwards: the unnecessary-S -- 35: Honor or an honor to be here?: the articles: a or an? Part 4: Adjective And Adverb Attitudes -- 36: She did things different: adjectives modifying verbs-a no-no -- 37: Team played real good: well versus good -- 38: This job is more simpler than what I had before: comparing with more and most -- 39: It's the most unique gift I've ever received!: unique, round, square, surrounded, perfect-or not? -- 40: This checkout-20 items or less: less versus fewer -- 41: He has over a million miles on that airline: over versus more than -- 42: I like smaller cars: incomplete comparisons -- Part 5: Parallel Bars And Balance Beams -- 43: To balance or not to balance-that is the question parallelism perfected -- 44: I worked, waited, and was rewarded: parallelism with a viewpoint change -- 45: Verbs with attitude: active and passive voice -- 46: Time marches on-but at the same pace: don't be lax about tense changes -- Part 6: Punctuation Problems -- 47: Comma hiccups: unnecessary commas -- 48: Comma clauses and pauses: essential or nonessential-that is the question -- 49: Hi Hank, what do you think Frank?: commas when addressing people directly -- 50: Dear spike: punctuation after salutations -- 51: She needs no introduction: commas to introduce -- 52: Punctuation powerless: run-ons-semicolons slip-sliding away -- 53: One car, two cars, three cars, four: commas to separate equal things -- 54: Alpha and the Omega: enclosing commas come in pairs -- 55: Colon scope-here's the scoop: colons before a list -- 56: Fragmented thoughts: unintentional fragments -- 57: Would you send me your address please: indirect questions and softened commands -- 58: Can you hear me now?: indirect quotations -- 59: Inside or outside?: where, oh where, do the quotation marks go? -- 60: Ripley's believe it or not: quotation marks to change the tone or the meaning -- 61: Spare tires: single quotation marks -- Part 7: Perplexing Possessives -- 62: Whatever possessed me!: it's versus its -- 63: Who's on firsts?: whose versus who's -- 64: Why are you so possessive?: plurals confused with possessives -- 65: Yours, mine, and ours: joint ownership-who gets the apostrophe? -- 66: Do you love me-or what I can do for you?: possessives before gerunds -- 67: It's about time: possessives with time and amounts -- 68: Overly possessive: descriptive or possessive? Part 8: Reminders About Redundancies -- 69: Past experience-is there any other kind?: little-word padding and redundant ideas -- 70: Continue on : redundant verb add-ons -- 71: Subject matter worth discussing: redundant nouns -- 72: Reason is because: doublespeak -- 73: Going to bat for that's: do you need the that? -- 74: I get your point-but do you get mine?: et cetera and so forth -- 75: Where's he at?: unnecessary prepositions -- Part 9: Miscellaneous Matters -- 76: Oh, say, can you see?: mispronunciation -- 77: What are the odds to start?: starting a sentence with a number -- 78: Nonsense: nonwords, fillers, and colloquialisms -- 79: You should of known better!: contractions that aren't -- 80: Got trouble?: have versus got? -- 81: Make a dash for it: distinct uses for hyphens and dashes -- 82: Dash away, dash away, dash away all: dashes versus well-organized sentences -- 83: No death knell for the hyphen: hyphens before related adjectives -- 84: Matching body parts: correlative links -- 85: Up a tree without a paddle: mixed metaphors -- 86: As much or more than most: prepackaged comparisons -- 87: Doing the splits: split infinitives -- 88: Without just cause: without: what it can and can't do -- 89: Getting top billing: phrasal prepositions -- 90: Branding issue: capitalization rules for the road -- 91: Name, rank, and serial number: capitalization with titles and positions -- 92: Undercapitalized with no regrets: the case for lowercase -- Part 10: Misspelled And Misused Words -- 93: Would you spell that for me?: frequently misspelled words -- 94: May I see your references, please?: spelling rules for plural forms -- 95: Messing with my head: hyphenate? solid? two words? -- 96: I resemble that remark: affect versus effect -- 97: Do I have your guarantee? ensure, insure, assure? -- 98: It's a matter of principle: principle versus principal -- 99: Good example: eg versus ie -- 100: How are you? nauseated versus nauseous -- 101: Is success imminent?: eminent versus imminent -- Bibliography -- Resources by Dianna Booher -- For more information -- Index N2 - Easy memory tricks to ensure propergrammar in business presentations, emails,letters, and much more UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0814/2008013467.html ER -