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    Good Grammar: Them's the Rules
    Good Grammar: Them's the Rules
    Good Grammar: Them's the Rules
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    Good Grammar: Them's the Rules

    By I.M. Knott

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    Author I.M. Knot has been a teacher, tutor, editor, and columnist. Knott's unusual insights into proper English usage are well worth a free read.

    Good Grammar: Them's the Rules
    by I.M. Knott
    23 pp. 4450 words

    Chapters

    Good Grammar Adds Up (includes a 60-question grammar
    quiz)

    All the Answers

    Orthography is Dead...Long Live Spellcheck?

    Very Interesting

    Le Mot Juste

    Siminyms, or Rhymes Gone Wrong

    Grammatically Incorrect Politics

    Einstein Didn't Know It All

    Elvis and the Double Negative

    What Difference Do It Make?

    To Be Or To Not Be

    The King James Version...Who Needs It?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherI.M. Knott
    Release dateApr 1, 2014
    ISBN9781311341198
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      Good Grammar - I.M. Knott

      Good Grammar

      Them's the Rules

      by I.M. Knott

      Copyright 2014 by I.M. Knott

      All rights reserved

      Published by Townhouse Books at Smashwords

      ISBN: 9781311341198

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends, provided the book remains in its complete original form.

      Contents

      Grammar Good Adds Up

      All the Answers

      Orthography is Dead...Long Live Spellcheck?

      Very Interesting

      Le Mot Juste

      Siminyms, or Rhymes Gone Wrong

      Grammatically Incorrect Politics

      Einstein Didn't Know It All

      Elvis and the Double Negative

      What Difference Do It Make?

      To Be or To Not Be

      The King James Version...Who Needs It?

      About the Author

      Good Grammar Adds Up

      In arithmetic, the answer to a problem is either right or wrong. Want proof? Try giving someone too little change for a $50 bill.

      Good grammar, believe it or not, is very much like arithmetic. Questions in grammar have correct answers, like two plus two equal four.

      Unfortunately, the correct answers in grammar are not so universally accepted as those in arithmetic. There are doubts. There are arguments.

      Two plus two equals four, many say, not two plus two equal four. Well, I say they are wrong, and good grammar backs me up.

      Here’s the answer:

      In English, the word two

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