Date:    Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:31:25 -0500
<br>From:    Mark Mandel  Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM 
<br>Subject: seeking textbook advice
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<br>I've gotten a request for help with textbooks, but I don't know anything to tell
<br> this person. Can any reader help?
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<br>Can you recommend a good, basic grammar book?  I want it primarily for my son.
<br>He's a sophomore in high school & going into AP English next year, but the
<br> grammar school district hasn't taught them
<br>grammar and his usage is terrible. Last week I read one of his essays.  Not only
<br> did he end the first sentence in a
<br>preposition, he didn't even know that the word 'from' was a preposition.  He
<br> thought they only related to location.
<br>     I need a brush up course also.  I work for a man whose first language is
<br>Turkish and whose sentence structure resembles Faulkner's.  After translating
<br> his letters into business language for 10
<br>years I find myself questioning things like basic comma rules.
<br>     If you know of a good book that would be available in commercial book
<br> stores, please let me know.
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<br>       Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist : mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dragonsys.com
<br>    Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
<br> 320 Nevada St., Newton, MA 02160, USA : http://www.dragonsys.com/
<br>           Personal home page: http://world.std.com/~mam/
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