Grammar for Grads and Go-getters: Get that job, Get a better job, Get that promotion! Quick and Easy Fixes for Common Grammar Errors

By Rayn Random

Grammar for Grads and Go-getters is not a textbook. There are no sentences to diagram, no quizzes, and no grades. It's easy to read and is a quick reference for everyone. After years of note taking to determine the most often made grammatical errors in speaking and writing, author Rayn Random quotes the error made, tells you what should have been s

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Random Company
• Release date: Apr 3, 2015
• ISBN: 9780984972937

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Grammar for Grads and Go-getters

Get that job, Get a better job, Get that promotion!

Quick & Easy Fixes for Common Grammar Errors

Rayn Random

GRAMMAR FOR GRADS AND GO-GETTERS

Get that job, Get a better job,

Get that promotion!

Quick & easy fixes for common grammar errors.

Rayn Random

© 2015 Rayn Random

First Edition April 2015

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any means whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except brief portions quoted for purpose of review.

ISBN 13: 978-0-9849729-3-7 (ebook)

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Printed in the United States of America

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Dedication

To my dear grandmother, Emily Kohls Volkmann, who first saw the Statue of Liberty from the deck of an arriving ship when she was twelve years old. She spoke only German and there were no bi-lingual classes in her new Wisconsin school to help her learn English. But, Emily was determined to master the English language—and she did. Throughout her adult life she insisted on good grammar and encouraged learning new words. This book is for her.

A Note From the Author

English Grammar has taken many hits on the high-speed information freeway. Some of the injuries are minor, and Grammar for Grads will ignore those, tending instead, to the most obvious and serious injuries. In Grammar for Grads there are no sentences to diagram, no quizzes, and no grades. What you will find are quick and simple fixes for common errors that are made repeatedly by news reporters, respected commentators, presidents, world leaders, and college professors.

A former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at a large, prominent, and respected university made a typical grammar error when he said in