English Grammar Workbook For Dummies doesn't concentrate on what we English teachers (yes, I confess I am one) call descriptive grammar— the kind where you circle all the nouns and draw little triangles around the prepositions. A closely guarded English-teacher secret is that you don't need to know any of that terminology (well, hardly any) to master grammar. Instead, English Grammar Workbook For Dummies concentrates on functional grammar—what goes where in real-life speech and writing.