Author Resource: The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Grammar and Punctuation by Jay Stevenson, Ph.D.

Checked out of Barr Memorial Library, Fort Knox, KY

Part 1: Words at Work

Here, you will learn all the grammar basics. It covers everything from Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Modifers, and Agreement.

This information will be beneficial to me in doing a final read thru of Adoptive Personality for second print, as well as, being in the process of writing Abduction at Home, and any future manuscripts I write.

Part 2: Marks of Distinction

This section concentrates on everything from commas, semicolons, colons, periods, question marks, exclamation points, brackets, slashes, italics, hyphens, dashes and parentheses, and apostrophes.

I will use this section to do a final punctuation check on Adoptive Personality and all my future projects.

It’s important to be aware of grammar and punctuation when writing your novel. During the rough draft, it is okay to make mistakes but if you start out with a good foundation, the easier your revisions will be.