E-Z Grammar (Barron's Easy Way)

This little book is packed with solid teaching. My ESL students use it on their own, to work at their own pace -- when we go over the material, they have a much greater depth of understanding. It is step-by-step, written plainly and clearly, and it is easy to follow. Wonderful resource.

Great information packed in this smaller book from the series. Good to add as a supplement to a curriculum of its kind.

Good

i bought it used its in very good condition

Very well written and complet for me needs.

I found this book to be a mixed bag, the author's approach is novel in that he begins by defining the various parts of speech, such as verbs and subjects, not just as simple words, but, as he explains it, as also comprising of several words that are called the complete subject or the complete verb. In the first couple of pages he also defines what a subject and a predicate are, which leads to a logical progression of the various terms, unlike some other grammar books where the authors begin to explain grammar without first defining all of the terms, leading to confusion and frustration. Having said that, his explanation of "direct object" left me at first perplexed. From page 15:Direct ObjectA direct object is a noun (word, phrase, or clause) or pronoun that receives action from the subject and verb. Two ideas are implied here: One is that the verb must be a transitive verb and can take an object; the second idea is that a passive verb, linking verb, or state of being verb (be, is, am, are, was, were, and been, which are intransitive) can never "take" an object; the only complements that can follow an intransitive verb are a predicate nominative or predicate adjective.Here, clarity was not the author's tour de force! I had to read the passage three times, and then just go from there hoping that further reading would help in deciphering the paragraph.My major frustration occurred in chapter 6 (Review of Chapters 1-5) page 58, in a long paragraph taken from Henry James' Daissy Miller, one is supposed to identify the underlined parts, such as prepositional phrases, gerunds, and the various parts of sentences. Unfortunately one quickly realizes that some of the numbers corresponding to the answer key in the back of the book, next to the underlined parts, are repeated twice, thus number 4 appears twice, consequently it is impossible find the correct answers in pages 174-176. I attempted to compensate for this error, but then found out that number 30 was also repeated twice, hence one can not find the correct answers to this exercise, they are all mixed up!I e-mail the publisher Barron's to see if I could get the correct answers, but after they requested the book's ISBN number, I have yet to hear from them. So I never really got passed page 58.

I used this in my composition class this school year and was incredibly disappointed. Beforehand, I went through the book and located dozens and dozens of wrong information, typos, and inconsistencies. One of the most ridiculous bits of info is that "so" is not a coordinating conjunction. There are and have always been seven coor. conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so (thus the mnemonic device FANBOYS). Needless to say, I won't be using it again. It looks as if no one ever went through and proofed or edited it. Almost every time I assigned a task, I had to go through it with students and correct the errors before they could even complete it. I'm very, very disappointed and appalled that Barron's would publish something of this quality. I am a proofreader, editor, writer, and instructor and don't have time to go through books for errors before using them in class.