The only grammar book you'll ever need by Susan Thurman

The only grammar book you'll ever need by Susan Thurman

        ...This may be the only grammar book you’ll ever need, but it’s not the only book you’ll ever need for writing

Author's decision to use The only grammar book you'll ever need as the title of this work is risky. Given the advent of Grammar Nazis, who cannot forgive someone even for splitting of an infinitive, author's use of such a bold title could seem either boorish or adventurous depending on the strength of content of the work. Fortunately, the clear, concise, and almost funny writing style of the author leads me to conclude the the title to be apt and ,despite its glibness, quite apropos to book's coverage.

The book's principal topics include: parts of speech, word selection, sentence structure, verbs, pronouns, punctuations, and effective writing. While I wouldn't recommend this book to a beginner of english grammar, the breath and details of the aforementioned topics are perfectly balanced making the book a perfect choice for readers who want a short grammar refresher. Susan has indeed chosen to delve on addressing the common errors related to each of these topics and provides a few examples of the error as well its resolution. I did feel that some of her points were too short and not enough examples were provided, but addition of these points/examples would come at the cost of augmenting the book and disturbing its current elegant state.

It could make sense to complement this book with Strunk's Elements of style; reading the same topic from both of these high quality reference books will help reader think from multiple angles and reinforce the concepts in his mind.

This book is strongly recommended for multiple reads for people looking for an english grammar refresher. Beginners might want to start with suitable introductory works in the market before jumping to this book.