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Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind: Blue Workbook provides clear and detailed exercises in the correct use of English grammar. Examples are based on great works of literature, as well as classic and contemporary works of science and history.
The
Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind series provides all the grammar skills needed to write and speak with eloquence and confidence.
. Step-by-step instruction takes students from the most basic concepts through advanced grammatical concepts.
. Extensive diagramming exercises reinforce the rules and help technical and visual learners to understand and use the English language effectively. Each step of the diagramming process is illustrated and thoroughly explained to the student.
. Text for examples and exercises is drawn from actual published works, from English literature classics to modern masters. Learn your grammar from the greats!
. Regular review is built into each year of work.
. The third of four non-sequential workbooks, each containing new exercises that allow students to practise and apply the grammar principles under study.
Along with the accompanying Key and the Core Instructor Text,
Blue Workbook makes up a full year of grammar study.
To complete the programme, add the
Comprehensive Handbook of Rules (soon to be
The Grammar Guidebook) and
The Diagramming Dictionary: indispensable guides to clear, grammatical writing that will last into college, and even beyond.
About the author
Susan Wise Bauer is a writer, educator, and historian. Her previous books include the Writing With Ease, Writing With Skill, and Story of the World series from Well-Trained Mind Press, as well as The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Rethinking School, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, and the History of the World series, all from W. W. Norton. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, as well as an M.A. in seventeenth-century literature and a Master of Divinity in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature. For fifteen years, she taught literature and composition at the College of William and Mary.
Summary
One of four Workbooks in the Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind series, Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind: Blue Workbook provides detailed, well-designed exercises in the correct use of English grammar, based on great works of literature as well as classic and contemporary works of science and history.
