English Composition & Grammar: Grade 12

by John E. Warriner

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0153117435
• ISBN13: 9780153117435
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Holt McDougal
• Length: 847 Pages
• Weight: 4.07 lbs.
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

The only grammar book you need

This book is a revelation. I had no clue of grammar when I started reading it. Chapter after chapter, exercise after exercise it slowly started to come together for me. The text is clear, the exercises are well defined and they are very relevant. He managed to make me understand and appreciate grammar. He uses the classical method with sentence diagramming which relly helped me. There is a section on composition also, which is very useful, but there there are also other books which you could use to complement Warriners fantastic tome.

This is all you need

I really like this book. I am a high school student taking college English as well as creative writng classes. This book has helped in more ways than I knew it could. It obviously teaches your basic english grammar, usage, and sentence structure. Thats not all though. It shows you how to compose different forms of writing, concentrate on mechanics. It gives you references and information on library tools, reference books, dictionaries, vocab, and spelling. It gives the basic idea on college entrance tests. As if thats not enough, it even shows you how to speak, debate, pronounce and enunciate words, etc. What more could you possibly want? I have never seen another book like this.

Warriner's English Gramar and Composition

I was issued a book named Warriner's English Grammar and Composition: Complete Course in the ninth grade in 1979. I am still using it. It is the only book ever issued to me in school which I still use. In college, I was issued another much inferior grammar book and basically threw the new one away and kept using Warriner's. Warriner's helped me through graduate school and later through writing published magazine articles. Right now, it is sitting next to my computer.Everything is laid out in many user-friendly indexes even on the inside of the front and back covers with page links. Every part of English grammar is stated logically and includes every useful example in the English language. It is simply the most well-written book I have ever touched. My most highest recommendation.

John Warriner wrote the original of same title in the 50s

I have a copy of Warriner's English Grammar and Composition from the 1950s. It was an old school book. As a professional writer I found the book to be the best, most organized grammar book out there. Often editor's eyes would light up when they saw the book, frequently borrowing it to consult on specific points of grammar. If this book is an updated version of the original I'm sure it's indespensible. Warriner's book should always be in print. I'm a big fan!

Perfect book for most writers and students

I learned to refine my writing using this book back in high school, and I still return to it often. It is very thorough and contains indispensable exercises, which allow the reader to practice each lessson. The book starts out with parts of speech and diagramming sentences, continues on through style and punctuation issues, and finishes with discussions and examples of research papers, business letters, tests of english, and public speaking. This book is perfect for any diligent student of writing in English, no matter what level of competence.