{"id":5840,"date":"2020-02-15T17:01:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T10:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/?p=5840"},"modified":"2020-02-15T17:01:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T10:01:05","slug":"smashing-grammar-a-guide-to-improving-your-writing-skills-and-avoiding-common-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/?p=5840","title":{"rendered":"Smashing grammar : a guide to improving your writing skills and avoiding common mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.mahidol.ac.th\/record=b1495258a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5745 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/66702-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>AUTHOR<\/strong> :\u00a0 Shrives, Craig<\/p>\n<p><strong>CALL NO<\/strong> :\u00a0 PE1112 S561s 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>IMPRINT<\/strong> :\u00a0\u00a0 London : Kyle Books, c2019<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Written by a former British Army officer (also the founder of the popular website Grammar Monster), Smashing Grammar is both a go-to grammar guide and a primer for writing clear English.<\/p>\n<p>Smashing Grammar is divided into three sections: A-Z of Punctuation, A-Z of Grammar Essentials and A-Z of Easily Confused Words. Every entry starts with a simple explanation and some basic examples. These are followed by real-life, engaging examples, which have been painstakingly hunted down for their ability to illustrate the point.<\/p>\n<p>Every entry concludes with a \u2018Why Should I Care?\u2019 section offering great tips and advice and explaining why the grammar point matters to a writer. Imbued with \u2018barrack room\u2019 humour, the writing itself is entertaining and often laugh-out-loud funny, with thousands of sample quotations ranging from Groucho Marx and Homer the Simpson to Karl Marx and Homer the Greek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUTHOR :\u00a0 Shrives, Craig CALL NO :\u00a0 PE1112 S561s 2019 IMPRINT :\u00a0\u00a0 London : Kyle Books, c2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-5840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-book-releases","tag-english-grammar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5841,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840\/revisions\/5841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}