As an English teacher I love grammar and am always looking for tools to make learning grammatical rules easier. Hopefully, The Infographic Guide to Grammar can be such a resources. It is divided into five chapters (Parts of Speech; Sentence Structure; Punctuation; Writing Style; Common Mistakes) and contains 50 infographics that should help visual learners digest this material better.

You may notice that I used the word should in the last sentence. That was due to a desire to be accurate in my wording. Though the ARC the publisher granted contains all the words in the infographics, the infographics themselves were not available in the ARC. This affected the rating I was able to give the book.

Helpful If You Write with Any Regularity

As an author, copyeditor, and voracious reader, I love this simple little infographic grammar guide. In fact, I might be recommending it to my authors! The book is broadly divided into five sections, starting with parts of speech and ending with common English mistakes. Other topics include sentence formation and writing style. Each infographic page is visually interesting and succinctly discusses its topic—whether that's adverbs, irregular verbs, or commonly misused phrases. As a self-proclaimed word nerd, I appreciated the author's way of summarizing information about each point of grammar, getting ideas across sparely but correctly… and even interestingly. Some pages even had some fun bonus information, like where the word or concept came from. Whether you are an author or happen to write a lot—whether for business or your own personal want or need—check out this easy-to-consume and very helpful book that will undoubtedly improve your writing.

This book is excellent for anyone looking to brush up on their grammar rules or for teachers looking for fun easy ways to explain certain rules. This book would also help English as a second language students. I enjoyed the way it was broken down into different subjects and the book flowed nicely without becoming too clunky and messy in reading. This is a quick read but a good book to have on hand if you are in love with grammar.

This is a very helpful guide, and I wish I'd had it when I was in school (though it would still be helpful now). Anyone who writes, whether for work, school, or pleasure, would benefit from having this book. Among (I still prefer using "amongst" over "among," but I'll use the word this guide prefers for this review) other things, I finally feel comfortable knowing when to use who/whom, and lay/lie! The visual layout and use of color were very helpful to me, as a visual learner, but might not appeal as much to non-visual learners. Definitely recommended!

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This was or is very useful, helpful and an easy guide to everything you need to know about English grammar. Of course, for someone like me, it is always a work in progress for I always have run-on sentences or some form of sentence structure problem. But it is good to have an easy guide when I now can remember to use it. This would be good for anyone to carry in their backpacks, notebooks and is just easier to carry this around instead of books.

This is a fantastic resource, full of great information and presented in an engaging way. What a great book to have in a school library or for an English Department. I will be recommending it.

Bright. Visually pleasing. Interesting book for young or old. Beautifully designed and easy to follow.

This is a great, accessible guide to English grammar. The infographics make the topic easier to understand and a lot more fun.

It is packed! I love the visual and three words to describe it are clear, concise and brightly presented. This visual guide really is a good resource for lots of non-english speaker. I would have one either digital or physical book.

It's a great way for studies for the visual learner, The guide is really easy to understand followed with a good examples.

This is an excellent guide!

There are not enough words to explain how helpful this graphic version of a grammar guide really is.

Highly recommended to parents and writers.

I love this book and will probably buy a hard copy when it becomes available. I also plan to recommend it to my writing group. Thanks to the publisher and netgalley for an egalley.

'This illustrated guide to English grammar gives you everything you need for a better understanding of how to write and punctuate correctly. From proper comma usage to the correct form of there, their, or they’re—understanding grammar has never been easier.

Is it who or whom? Affect or effect? And what is a prepositional phrase? With The Infographic Guide to Grammar, you’ll learn the answers to all of these questions, and so much more. Filled with colorful, easy-to-understand entries, this book includes topics like:

–Basic sentence structure
–The parts of speech
–Common mistakes and how to avoid them

Featuring 50 vibrant infographics explaining everything from subject-verb agreement to the Oxford comma and verb tenses this book breaks down the complicated rules and guidelines for writing the English language and makes them clear and straightforward.'
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I am a language nerd and spent the entirety of my years in college studying all the languages available. And let me tell you that there is nothing that my heart loves more than a beautifully executed chart that is colorful and concise, but wonderfully informative. A chart to break down the ins and outs of a language rule and make it fun? I love them, I have handy little charts everywhere, but I've never really seen or utilized them for the languge that I speak natively, English.

Growing up, I never really got a clear education on all the many nuances and rules that make up a language. Obviously I was taught the big ones like nouns, verbs, commas, periods, ect. But things like participles and the passive voice, coordinate adjectives? Never in my young life. So learning the many, many ways to conjugate a verb in my first ever Latin class was a frightful experience and thus my love and reliance on a handy language chart was born. I copied SOO many rule charts out of my language textbooks for reference during language classes and The Inforgraphic Guide to Grammer is an entire book of them!

This book probably isn't everyone's cup of tea, but if you're a student of languages I think you will find this guide very interesting and that it'll help make connections across the langauges you're studying bring able to see the breakdown of your own native language(if yours is English). And even if you're not a student of modern or classical languages but still in schoo, I think it would be very handy when it comes to writing papers. The charts are very clear and informative and there are accompanying blurbs to the language rules to explain the dos and don'ts of the rules and to provide examples., which are incredibly helpful for a visual leaner.
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I would like to thank NetGalley and Adams Media for sharing an eARC of The Infographic Guide to Grammar: A Visual Reference for Everything You Need to Know by Jane Kern with me. This is my honest review.

The Infographic Guide to Grammar is a neat graphic primer on proper usage for English grammar. Due out 2nd Sept 2020 from Simon & Schuster on their Adams Media imprint, it's 128 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats.

When I was an admittedly nerdy kid, I used to love diagramming sentences, playing with writing exercises, keeping journals and all those sorts of assignments. I would have absolutely coveted this book. It's full of graphic charts, diagrams, colorful bullet lists, and punchy illustrations showing the parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, style, and common mistakes.

It's not really aimed particularly at school aged kids; I found quite a number of salient points which I had either forgotten or not learned the first time around. This is a comprehensive book, but not an encyclopedic one, so for all of the subjects it covers, it does so in a perfunctory (somewhat incomplete) manner. I enjoyed reading it and would recommend it as a useful desk reference, especially for visual learners. The book also includes a cross referenced index to access charts quickly and easily.

Four stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes

This is a bright and colorful illustrated guide to grammar. I found it mostly filled with good information to help both native and non-native speakers with various grammar issues. There were a couple areas where I found the organisation could have been better and one section that I felt was inadequate. But otherwise it's quite an enjoyable guide that would benefit many grammar users, especially those geared towards a more visual style of learning.

Overall, I give this 4 stars.

I want to thank Adams Media and Netgalley for sharing an advance reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

So fun and helpful! I was born in Brazil and my native language is Portuguese. I've always loves English and even though I can speak and understand 100% I sometimes still struggle with grammar. This infographic is very helpful and helpful. It's fun, colorful, clear and easy to understand. I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

This book is perfect for those that are still puzzling over "basic" grammar rules, those who consider themselves connoisseurs, and those learning the ins and outs of the English Language. With awesome graphics, quick tidbits of information, and bright colors, I flew through this grammar guide.

(Also if you're like me and have always struggled with parts of speech...this book is a LIFESAVER. Do I know what an adjective is? Am I an avid capitalizing junky? Yes. My favorite pages were the ones tell me what to and what not to capitalize. All those nasty exceptions that I can never keep straight are listed with easy to remember guidelines.)

If you consider this book as one giant deck of flashcards to help you memorize the basics of grammar, then it’ll make you happy but if you’re looking for more depth and detailed information, you might be disappointed.
I really liked the idea behind it and enjoyed most of the chapters, however did not find something that I had not known before. It was too shallow for my taste and most subjects are left right on the surface. On the bright side, this colorful book grabs your attention from the first page wih beautifully designed pages, charts and diagrams that may help you declutter your mind, help organize your grammar knowledge if it’s all over the place and remember basic concepts of English language.
Overall a good reference book for grammar police and for those wishing to learn the basics without complicated details and includes good tips and tricks to improve writing skills and linguistic dexterity.

As a Teacher of English, I am always on the lookout for books that can explain grammar clearly to a wide variety of students. This book is visual, intuitive, and direct.
I love the straight forward explanations, the clean layout, and the ease of finding what you are looking for.
In several instances, I found charts or graphs that I have drawn on my board while trying to explain a concept to one of my students.
Not only will I buy a copy for my classroom library, but I will recommend it to others.

The Infographic Guide to Grammar
A Visual Reference for Everything You Need to Know
by Jara Kern
Back of the Book: “Mastering grammar is now easier than ever with this fully illustrated guide that covers the most important rules in grammar and punctuation—making even the most confusing rules easy to understand.
This illustrated guide to English grammar gives you everything you need for a better understanding of how to write and punctuate correctly. From proper comma usage to the correct form of there, their, or they’re—understanding grammar has never been easier.
Is it who or whom? Affect or effect? And what is a prepositional phrase? With The Infographic Guide to Grammar, you’ll learn the answers to all of these questions, and so much more. Filled with colorful, easy-to-understand entries, this book includes topics like:
–Basic sentence structure
–The parts of speech
–Common mistakes and how to avoid them
Featuring 50 vibrant infographics explaining everything from subject-verb agreement to the Oxford comma and verb tenses this book breaks down the complicated rules and guidelines for writing the English language and makes them clear and straightforward.”
Impressions: I am a visual learner and generally enjoy infographics.
Liked: Infographics are quick and easy to obtain information from. Regardless of feeling the pages were too busy I feel like having the basic facts readily available is nice.
Disliked: Infographics are just too fun not to pass up. That being said there is a balance to learning through pictures. I found the graphics to be distracting from the facts. I feel like the infographics were a bit busy for learning purposes and could have been better organized.
Learned: As an adult, I am still not good at grammar😊
Quotes: Nothing stood at as noteworthy.

A quick and easy guide to mastering the complications of English Grammar. Well presented with easy to understand guides. Recommended for all who want to learn English.