Doing Grammar

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Summary: excellent book
Review: A concise introduction to English Grammar.
I bought it based on Shawn Berry's recommendation and read it twice. It has improved my understanding of english grammar and my GMAT score as well. Many English grammar books suffer from monstruous verbosity which Doing Grammar has none.
Although the book is very concise and neatly written, I would have liked a wider scope. (e.g. idioms, prepositions)

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Summary: Excellent text for those who are/want to be grammar nuts
Review: Excellent. Morenberg is hilarious, and his explanations of the complicated workings of English grammar are lucid and understandable.

Rating:
Summary: An Excellent and Practical Guide To Grammar
Review: I first read and worked with this book on my own about 9 years ago and it really clarified grammar in a practical, "real life" way for me.

It has helped me both as a writer and a reader.

As a writer I found more options for expressing myself by having more tools to work with and as a reader it helps me decipher endlessly complex sentences that can resemble a linguistic maze.

By being able to break down those complex sentences to their basic constituents, one can clearly see which parts of the sentence are functioning as core ideas, and which are functioning as embellishment.

This book is very user friendly and is in my opinion an excellent self study guide with an interesting variety of exercises.

Highly recommended