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Designed to keep pace with current workplace needs and the emerging 21st century culture, this book offers a lively, accessible, and user-friendly alternative for those who dread the thought of barebones traditional grammar and communication instruction and its overkill of rules. Personalized by warmth, light humor, and inspiration, it focuses on the "real-world" English skills needed to get a good job, hold the job, and advance in a career -- i.e., how to write and speak Standard English for careers and to avoid noticeable errors. Features a reading level that assures accessibility for nearly anyone. Covers a full range of grammar topics and Interweaves (into sample sentences, practice exercises, memos and letters, proofreading exercises, and tests) information on business practices, workplace cultural diversity, workplace ethics, human relations, workplace etiquette, the international marketplace, technology, or self-improvement. For anyone needing instruction in Standard English grammar and communication skills for the workplace.

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• I Tools of The Trade
• 1 Nouns and Verbs
• 2 Pronouns
• 3 Adjectives
• 4 Adverbs
• 5 Little Words
• 6 Versatile Tools
• 7 Introducing The Business Letter
• II Secret Life Of A Sentence Revealed
• 8 Psychology and Sentence Construction
• 9 The Clinging Vine
• 10 Fragments, Anyone?
• 11 Capital Punishment
• 12 Joining Independents
• 13 Leaning
• 14 The Missing Key
• III Ain'tis In The Dictionary
• 15 Getting to Know You
• 16 Cracking the Code
• 17 The Translation
• 18 Misspellers Anonymous
• IV Apples, Tigers, and Swahili
• 19 Safety in Numbers
• 20 Plurals out of Uniform
• 21 The Eccentric S
• 22 Compounds and Propers
• 23 Banishing Bias From Business English
• 24 Vocabulary and Spelling
• V Be Kind to The Substitute Week
• 25 Just Between You and Me
• 26 Me, Myself, and I
• 27 The Lizard's Tail
• 28 Two's Company
• Three's a Crowd
• 29 A Whodunit
• 30 Everybody Needs Milk
• VI Looking For The Action? Then Study Verbs!
• 31 Timely Tips
• 32 Delinquent Verbs
• 33 Dictionary Data
• 34 To Be, or not to Be
• 35 The Subject-Verb Combo
• 36 Subject-Verb Harmony: Step 1
• 37 Subject-Verb Harmony: Step 2
• 38 If I Were a Millionaire
• VII Love Lines
• 39 These, Those, and Them
• 40 Two Little Words
• 41 Managing a and an
• 42 Good, Gooder, Goodest?
• 43 To -Ly or Not to -Ly, That is the Question
• 44 Comparisons and Good Feelings
• 45 I Don't Want No Spinach!
• VIII The Taming Of The Apostrophe
• 46 The Ubiquitous S
• 47 Before or After?
• 48 More Apostrophes
• IX The Pause That Refreshes
• 49 Wine, Women, and Song
• 50 For Adjectives Only
• 51 Independents Day
• 52 Curtain Raisers
• 53 Parentheticals
• 54 Three Easy Commas
• 55 Notes on Quotes
• 56 Kiss Me Once Again, But Not Now
• 57 A Comma Medley
• X Punctuation Potpourri
• 58 In Conclusion
• 59 The Halfway Mark
• 60 An Easy Mark
• 61 Good Marksmanship
• 62 Plagiarism's Enemy
• 63 Half a Dash
• 64 Wild Apostrophes
• XI A Business Dictionary
• 65 Adjuster through Capitalism
• 66 Cashier's Check through Escrow
• 67 Exemption through Litigation
• 68 Loss Leader through Programmer
• 69 Proxy Through Void
• XII Word Power
• 70 Confusing Pears
• 71 An Apple Has a Peel
• 72 Look Alikes
• 73 More Look Alikes
• 74 The Small Words
• 75 Say It Right
• XIII Sentence Power
• 76 Secret Review
• 77 Don't Let Your Verbals Dangle in Public
• 78 Ladies with Concrete Heads and Parallel Parts
• 79 The Beeline
• 80 Dick and Jane
• XIV Sincerely Yours
• 81 Looking Good
• 82 The Parts
• 83 The Arrangement
• 84 Sounding Good
• Appendix
• Pop Quizzes
• Spelling for Careers
• Spelling Tips
• Proofreaders' Marks
• Final Rehearsal
• Read and Replay Reference Manual
• Grammar Supplement for the Expert
• Replay Answers
• Index