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Geraldine Woods

Author of English Grammar For Dummies

54 Works 1,219 Members 6 Reviews

About the Author

Geraldine Woods has taught English at every level from fifth grade through Advanced Placement, most recently at the Horace Mann School. The author of numerous nonfiction books for adults and children, she lives in New York City.

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Works by Geraldine Woods

English Grammar For Dummies (2001) 321 copies
Science in Ancient Egypt (1998) 274 copies
Research Papers For Dummies (2002) 81 copies
Tarzan of the Apes (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) (1982) — Adapter — 48 copies
The Navajo (Watts Library) (2002) 17 copies
SAT For Dummies (2010) 16 copies
Affirmative action (1989) 6 copies
Real scary sea monsters (1979) 5 copies
Book of the Unknown (1982) 4 copies
Heroin (1994) 3 copies
Pollution (First Books) (1985) 2 copies
PSAT/NMSQT For Dummies (2013) 1 copy

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Gender
female
Places of residence
New York City, New York, USA
Agent
Jill Grinberg Literary Management
Short biography
[from Jill Grinberg Literary Management website]
Geraldine Woods is a former educator and the author of more than 50 books, including English Grammar for Dummies, which has been translated into ten languages, and Webster's New World Punctuation: Simplified and Applied. She taught for three decades at the prestigious Horace Mann School, where she created dozens of curricular units, many for grammar instruction and writing that have been emulated by teachers across the country, and around the world. She continues to mentor and advise educators. She wrote dozens of other For Dummies books such as College Admission Essays for Dummies, and Research Papers for Dummies. She is the author of Independent Study That Works: Designing a Successful Program, 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way, and Sentence.: A Period to Period Guide to Building Better Readers and Writers, all from W.W. Norton. She lives in New York City, where she keeps a blog, Grammarian in the City, providing wry commentary on language trends and the pretentious or incomprehensible signs she observes on her walks.

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Finally finished this book. It took me 3 months to completely read and practice all the contents in this book. As someone who has little understanding of grammar, this book really helped me learning English language.
 
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wayanadhi | Feb 4, 2020 |
I really enjoyed reading this mini biography of Jim Henson.

This book does a good job of painting a picture of one of the most anonymously famous people in television history.

The book describes Jim's early life before the invention of television and Jim's extreme interest in Television after its invention.

The book describes Jim's transition from artist/painter to puppeteer/film maker.

There are many pictures throughout the book that give a behind the scenes look at a seemingly easy job; puppeteering.

This book is appropriate for 3rd graders and up. I wouldn't even put an age limit on this book because it provides information that many adults may also find interesting.

One piece I found to be very important was Jim's underlying freedom of feelings throughout his career. One of the chapters is titled "I think life is basically good" which I believe shows Jim's optimism and good natured character.
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Scott_Nilson | Oct 9, 2013 |

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Works
54
Members
1,219
Popularity
#21,068
Rating
½ 3.7
Reviews
6
ISBNs
159
Languages
5

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