Looking for Grammar & Math Reference Books

[Guest]

I am taking all your advice and working on educating myself, slowly but surely! My next endeavor is to purchase a reference book for grammar and one for math.

 

For grammar, the books that I have found so far and am contemplating are: Oxford English Grammar and Fowler's Modern English Usage

 

For math, I saw the Usborne Dictionary of Math, but don't think it's as deep as I'd like to go (I want it to go beyond elementary or jr. high school). I saw a HarperCollins Dictionary of Mathematics.

 

Basically, I just want an all in one book for each subject. For grammar, I would like it to include diagramming and show illustrations (about diagramming). For math, I'd like basic formulas that are used in high school math, illustrations for geometry and trigonometry, etc. I don't know if that in any way helps you know what I'm looking for, but I definitely want materials that go through high school.

 

So, got any gems???? I'm in no way attached to any of the above links. I became overwhelmed and decided to just post what I had found thus far.

 

Thanks!

[stripe]

I found this one at a library book sale: Warriner's English Grammar and Composition, Fifth Course, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.

 

I typed up the table of contents in this thread here:

 

PART ONE: GRAMMAR

1. The Parts of Speech

Their identification and function

2. The Parts of a Sentence

Subjects, predicates, and complements

3. The Phrase

Kinds of phrases and their functions

4. The Clause

Adjective, noun, and adverb clauses

 

PART TWO: USAGE

5. The Varieties of English

Levels of usage; appropriateness

6. Correct Agreement

Subject and verb, pronoun and antecedent

7. Correct pronoun usage

Case forms of pronouns

8. Correct verb usage

Principal parts; tense, voice, mood

9. Correct use of modifiers

Form of adjectives and adverbs; comparison

10. Glossary of Usage

 

PART THREE: COMPOSITION: SENTENCE STRUCTURE

11. Complete Sentences

Fragments and run-on sentences

12. Coordination and subordination

Emphasis and relationship of ideas

13. Clear Reference

Pronouns and antecedents

14. Placement of Modifiers

Misplaced and dangling modifiers

15. Parallel Structure

Matching ideas to form

16. Sentence Variety

Interest and emphasis

 

PART FOUR: COMPOSITION: PARAGRAPHS AND LONGER PAPERS

17. The Paragraph

Structure and development of paragraphs

18. The Whole Composition

Selecting a subject; planning and writing the composition

19. Clear Thinking

(fallacies)

20. Exercises in Writing Prose

The essay, the book review, the precis

21. The Research Paper

Research techniques; the formal composition

22. The Business Letter

Standard practice in business correspondence

 

PART FIVE: MECHANICS

23. Capitalization

Rules of standard usage

24. Punctuation

End marks and commas

25. Punctuation

Other marks of punctuation (semicolon, colon, dash, parentheses, brackets, underlining (italics), quotation marks, apostrophe, hyphen)

26. Manuscript Form

Rules for preparing a final draft

 

PART SIX: AIDS TO GOOD ENGLISH

27. The Library

28. Reference Books

29. The Dictionary

30. Vocabulary

31. Spelling

 

PART SEVEN: AMERICAN ENGLISH

32. American English

(regional dialects, characteristics of American English, loan words, americanisms)

 

PART EIGHT: COLLEGE ENTRANCE AND OTHER EXAMINATIONS

33. College entrance and other examinations

 

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I didn't think there was anything special about this one, so I wouldn't recommend spending the shockingly high asking prices (in the range of $50) I saw on Amazon for it! (I've got the "heritage edition," whatever that means.)

 

I am sure others will have better suggestions than mine, though. :)

 

Also I read some positive review of this book somewhere, so I stuck it in my Amazon cart, but I don't remember the details:

Essential Facts and Tables

At $3.95, I am sure it's less authoritative than the volumes you saw.

Edited October 16, 2010 by stripe

[Ray]

Have these one is English the others Math; An American Rhetoric-William Watt; Mathematics for the Nonmathematician-Kline; and What is Mathematics?-Courant.

 

 

 

 

http://www.amazon.com/American-Rhetoric-William-Whyte-Watt/dp/0030441668/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1287276005&sr=8-1

 

 

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Nonmathematician-Dover-explaining-science/dp/0486248232/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1287276111&sr=1-1

 

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Elementary-Approach-Ideas-Methods/dp/0195105192/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1287276151&sr=1-1

[Crimson Wife]

For math up through pre-algebra I like Math on Call. In the same series there are books for algebra and geometry but I haven't seen them. I don't know that you're going to find a single reference that covers all of arithmetic, algebra, and geometry in one book.

[lisak]

For math up through pre-algebra I like Math on Call. In the same series there are books for algebra and geometry but I haven't seen them. I don't know that you're going to find a single reference that covers all of arithmetic, algebra, and geometry in one book.

 

I have the Algebra to Go (http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Go-Mathematics-Handbook-Handbooks/dp/0669471518/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b) and also Geometry to Go (http://www.amazon.com/Geometry-Math-Handbooks-Dave-Bradley/dp/0669481297/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_c). I had asked for a reference for Algebra and this is one that was recommended on this forum. Both are good. We referenced the Algebra some. So far Geometry is going well and we haven't had to reference any outside resource yet, but this book is well laid out.