Elliott Rebecca. Painless Grammar

Barron's Educational Series Inc., 2006. — 224 p. — (Painless Series). — ISBN 0764134361.This very approachable text combines instruction in parts of speech and sentence structure with down-to-earth examples, funny illustrations, and examination of some of the more amusing and peculiar words in the English language. A chapter on clear e-mail communication and etiquette is brand new in this edition, as are many of the author’s challenging Brain Ticklers. Her helpful chapter on how to edit a school paper has also been heavily revised and updated.Barron’s popular Painless Series of study guides for middle school and high school students offer a lighthearted, often humorous approach to their subjects, transforming details that might once have seemed boring or difficult into a series of interesting and mentally challenging ideas. Most titles in the series feature many fun-to-solve Brain Tickler problems with answers at the end of each chapter.