I received a digital ARC copy of Everyday Grammar Made Easy. Thank you Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read this book. I'm giving the book 3.5 Stars.

As a homeschooling mom and self-proclaimed grammar nut, this book was a great refresher in the grammar items even I have forgotten. It has also made teaching my son grammar a bit easier.

As an English minor, I can definitely appreciate this book! It’s also very helpful to refresh and brush up on grammar skills. This is also a great book if you are a homeschool teacher and may not feel super strong about your abilities to teach grammar to your kids or other students. Overall, a great book!

This book aims to review what "you forgot you knew". Personally, I don't recall being taught much about grammar at school, no more than the real basics anyway. Everything I currently know, I think I picked up from reading or my own learning.

I find language and the structure of it very interesting so this book was a good basic overview of the essential building blocks of our language. The first section talks about the fundamentals, the second focuses in more on specific topics; nouns, verbs etc, and the final section covers some common pitfalls. There are also helpful appendices including a glossary of terms, verb guides and further resources.

the book includes "quick tests" as we go to check your understanding of what has been described and is set out really well in an aesthetically pleasing layout!

Great for those of us who are interested in grammar and need a bit of a refresh and probably a handy guide for parents who might face questions from their offspring on how these things work!

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

Everyday Grammar made easy is a fantastic book to have at home for numerous occasions and is really helpful and informative as well as easy to follow and understand.
Each page is set out nicely and in a simple but enjoyable way too.
I've managed to refresh my grammar skills reading this and will definitely get a paper copy at some point for future reference.

Everyday Grammar Made Easy is a great resource to have on hand for anyone. I loved how easy it was to understand. It had an example of every kind of grammatical error and how to fix it. The handbook also goes in depth with what different forms of grammar there are and how to properly use them, It was a nice refresher course in the writing skills we learned in school and it also pointed out things I didn't know. I highly recommend Everyday Grammar Made Easy! Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read this book! (This review is also on GoodReads.)

Good refresher! Easy to read; well laid-out using colors and fonts to visually explain the useful examples of the concepts. Super useful and will for sure be an oft-used reference for me.

I recently returned to learning and wanted to brush up on my grammar. It is perfect for my needs. This book is an excellent resource, easy to understand, straight to the point without lots of padding.

As someone who now writes everyday for their job — despite never intending to — this book is a bit of a godsend. It breaks things done into an easy to digest manner, clearing up the mysteries of grammar I never learned ir forgot since highschool.

However, I think this book is better suited to being a physical copy. The book makes great use of colour which would make an evil a waste, and the PDF version is annoying to read as you have to scroll sideways as well as down. This could be easily fixed by making it a single page spread in the PDF, but maybe double check this by getting a sample before you commit to the PDF version!

This will be a handy reference for me going forward though, I’m sure.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

(Note - My hardcover copy that arrived on Aug 30th, 2021 had a normal cover, no issues with the cover being upside down as other reviewers have reported; so hopefully that issue was limited to the first few copies printed? )

This book is divided into three parts, with a total of eleven chapters.

Part One covers the fundamentals, with chapters on 'Grammar Basics' and 'The Building Blocks of Language.' This is a nice refresher for adults that learned these rules long ago, and a helpful study guide for kids learning the rules for the first time.

Part Two has chapters that focus specifically on the follow topics: Nouns, Adjectives, Pronouns and Case, Verbs, Adverbs, Conjunctions/Prepositions/Interjections, and Punctuation/Formatting.

Part Three covers common pitfalls, with two chapters dealing with the misuse of same-sounding words and misapplication of grammar principles.

Overall this is a useful book to have, especially if you are helping a young student with their school work and you have forgotten some of these grammar rules over the years. Everything is written in a clear and concise format, with plenty of examples to guide you. Many of the most common situations are addressed, so it makes it easy to figure out exactly what the grammatically correct answer is.

This grammar book is very clear and easy to follow. I'm still studying it but so far it seems fine to me. It's a small book (176pages) but it goes straight to the point. I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

This book is part of the Everyday Learning series, and is a wonderful resource for a comprehensive review of grammar. It is a valuable tool to add to the bookshelf and home office of readers, writers, professionals, and students. It covers all of the components of grammar that someone seeking to gain knowledge on this topic would need. Thanks to Net Galley and Quarto Publishing Group - Wellfleet Press, Wellfleet Press for the advance reader's copy and opportunity to review this book.
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Everyday Grammar Made Easy is a well-organised and informative guide for those looking to improve their grammar or reinforce what they already know with regard to the topic. Many people, even with an abundant supply of language sources, are not completely confident in their English language skills, and that is where this book comes in. If you count yourself as one of those who could benefit from some everyday grammar improvement, this book will help you reach that goal. It is structured to reinforce your foundational understanding of grammar, spark your curiosity and solidify your confidence.

It approaches the subject from the top and presents a common big-picture overview before moving to establish a foundation for organising and understanding the minute details that make up the world of grammar. It is not a one-stop-shop as there are simply too many rules to fit into one book, but it does create a framework for mastering basic grammar principles. If you are new to learning grammar in a serious way, this handy little guide will help you systematically build your knowledge. If you are experienced with grammar but merely need a refresher, it also works as an excellent reference resource. Highly recommended.

I love languages, I love grammar and I love finding new things in the languages I am interested in. This book explains in simple terms what is a noun, what is a verb etc. and it gives examples for each part of speech. I think anyone will be able to understand grammar even if that person is a native speaker or not.

Everyday Grammar Made Easy by Rod Mebane.

Great book for children and adults alike, an amazing reference book and as an avid reader and lover of writing this book is really cool.

Thank you to the author, publishers and everyone involved in the making of this book.
I read and give my honest review on Netgalley, Goodreads Librarything, Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

Are you someone who never got a formal education in grammar? Are you an author or someone else who has to write a whole heck of a lot and worry about your lack of grammatical knowledge hinders your ability to communicate effectively? Do you want to spend less on copy editing? Then Everyday Grammar Made Easy might help.

So this book is what it says on the tin. It's a guide to the basics of grammar that often feels like an extended vocabulary lesson rather than an actual education. The knowledge imparted is old school and skewed toward the University of Chicago school of grammar. Which is fine, but it may contradict some things if your workplace/employer uses the AP style guide.

The book is also old school in how it approaches gender. While it acknowledges that there are people tho use the singular they, the book doesn't get into neo-pronouns (Xhe. e, ir, etc.) which okay... but it would help to acknowledge that language is evolving and new words come into existence including those referring to gender. Especially since figuring out proper verb tense is a thing. In a way, I feel like this was a missed opportunity and perpetuates the falsity of a gender binary.

As an editor with 25 years of experience, this book was a little elementary for me. I was also very lucky that the school systems I attended gave me a very solid foundation in grammar.-- complete with the knowledge of how to diagram a sentence. But my experience is not a universal experience, and most people I know don't understand how to use the subjunctive (Thank you, Spanish!) or how to punctuate a parenthetical. That said, it does cover a few areas that often trip up less formally educated writers. Things like when to use I or Me in the predicate or subject-verb agreement. I did like that there was a chart at the back of the book that provided an easy reference guide on how to conjugate irregular verbs. But at the same time, I didn't love the long hard to read list of regular verbs. It didn't feel necessary.

The book was laid out in a logical fashion, and it did what it said it was going to do... it explained the basics of grammar. And while it did cover some of the most common pitfalls, it didn't go into other areas where people struggle... like how to punctuate dependent clauses, prepositional phrases, and how to tell if information is important to a sentence or extraneous (which is a common issue I run into when copy editing). For instance, it covered what to do punctuation wise if you start a sentence with a subordinating conjunction (since, because, as, etc.) but not what to do if the subordinating conjunction is use in the middle or at the end of a sentence. I felt like it was missing things. Like the order of adjectives, how to identify and correct misplaced modifiers, how to identify a prepositional phrase vs. a dependent clause vs an independent clause, etc. Things that would have helped nervous writers avoid some common pitfalls.

But it isn't a bad book.I would likely recommend it to people who really never got the basics of English grammar or for people who are ESL and want to have a name for a lot of the terminology. But I feel it is important to note that this book doesn't go into everything and is more clearly geared for non-fiction/essay writing rather than fiction writing.

Ultimately, I feel that this book deserves...

Four Stars.

I received an ARC of this book via NetGalley.

This is an excellent book. It is well laid out and everything is clearly explained. English Grammar is not easy and there are so many technical terms to try and appreciate, but I think Medbane does a great job of breaking rules down, explaining them and giving clear examples to support the explanation. The use of colour and labels in sample sentences means you are always easily able to work out where the rule he has just explained is being applied.

This is definitely a book to have on the shelf to refer to to over and over again. Brilliant for parents whose grammar knowledge is shaky to support their children!

Very useful and easy to follow. I liked the examples and the clarity of the explanations.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

I appreciated this book very much. It is a great little resource to have around. I appreciated the grammar refresher. This books is all great stuff we learned in school, but for some of us, it was a very long time ago. If you are looking for a basic grammar refresher, look no further. I do wish Netgalley would have allowed us to read it as a kindle file. It was hard to read on my phone. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read and review this book.

Thanks to NetGalley.com for a review copy of Rob Mebane's book. I struggled with my rating because, as a lingiust, I know that the response that I have to books about grammar is likely going to be very different from the response the average reader will have. Here is my concern and why the book earned three stars from me rather than five: the book assats that it will focus on implicit knowledge of language (suggested by the subtitle), but the book is a traditional school grammar that still presents a very prescriptive point of view.

Mebane's treatment of articles (what linguists call determiners) and compound verbs obscures rather than clarifies. Although the way he presents these two categories is consistent with foreign language grammars, it isn't necessarily helpful for a native speaker who is trying to improve her mastery of grammatical concepts.

I was hoping that this text might be a good reference grammar for my students, but I'm not sure it would help them. Worse, I think it might reify their negative attitudes toward speakers non-standard varieties. Although Mebane does deal with variation when he talks about pronoun reference and they/them as a singular, but he doesn't mention dialect variation elsewhere.