The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Straus, Jane.

The blue book of grammar and punctuation : an easy-to-use guide with clear rules, real-world examples, and reproducible quizzes / Jane Straus, Lester Kaufman, Tom Stern.â Eleventh edition.

pages cm

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-118-78556-0 (pbk)â ISBN 978-1-118-79021-2 (pdf)â ISBN

978-1-118-79032-8 (epub)

1. English languageâ Grammar. 2. English languageâ Grammarâ Problems, exercises, etc. 3. English languageâ Punctuation. 4. English languageâ Punctuationâ Problems, exercises, etc. I. Kaufman, Lester II. Stern, Tom III. Title.

PE1112.S773 2014

428.2â dc23

2013038993

Preface and Acknowledgments

Jane Straus created her English language instructional materials because she “found no books that conveyed the rules of English inâwellâplain English.” Over the years of teaching basic English language skills to state and federal government employees as well as to individuals in the private sector and in nonprofit organizations, she refined her materials, eventually creating
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
and its related website,
GrammarBook.com
.

In the introduction to the tenth edition, the author spoke of her 2003 brain tumor diagnosis, how it led to her next bold steps in life, and her successful surgery to remove the tumor. Unfortunately, in 2009, she again learned she had a new, unrelated brain tumorâthis time malignant. Jane Ruth Straus passed away on February 25, 2011.

Due to the outpouring of appreciation for her work, her husband, Lester Kaufman, continued to oversee the
GrammarBook.com
website so that anyone around the world could still benefit from her life's work. He also collected ideas and suggestions for changes, new material, and improvements to
The Blue Book
. After making the acquaintance of Tom Stern, a Marin County, California, writer and editor, Kaufman recognized that Stern possessed the knowledge, skills, experience, and passion needed to thoroughly re-examine
The Blue Book
and revise it to make it a first-rate grammar resource for everyone.

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