When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People: How to Avoid Common Errors in English

Ann Batko

jun 2023 · Red Wheel/Weiser

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Discover an easy way to polish up your English with this guide to avoiding common mistakes people make when writing and speaking.
Good news—you're definitely not the only person who struggles to keep "who" and "whom," "affect" and "effect," or "lay" and "lie" straight. Bad news: Frequent grammatical errors can affect (not effect) your success at work and in other areas of life.
This comprehensive, easy-to-use reference is a program designed to help you identify and correct the most common errors in written and spoken English. After a short, simple review of some basic principles, When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People is organized by error type, such as Mangled Modifiers or Mixing up Words that Sound the Same. You choose how to work your way through, either sequentially or in the order most relevant to you. Each unit contains tests at the end to help you reinforce what you've learned. Best of all, the information is presented in a clear, lively, and conversational style—unlike your eighth-grade grammar textbook!

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Ann Batko is a business communications expert and former executive editor of Rand McNally & Company. She has trained numerous advertising, marketing, and publishing executives how to be effective writers and presenters.Edward Rosenheim is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor Emeritus, in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago, where he taught for 42 years. For 20 years, he was the editor of the prestigious journal Modern Philology.