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Title: A concise, accessible place to answer grammar questions
Review: The Harbrace Handbook was required in my first college English course since errors could simply by keyed to the relevant explanation in the handbook. It was a very workable solution for student and teacher since the handbook could go into details in a way the teacher couldn't, for lack of time. After college, as the handbook was revised, I purchased subsequent editions because, knowing the way the book was organized, it was easy to go right to the answer when I had a question, or a doubt. The spelling tips in Section 18 reassured me on more than one occasion. Along with the handbook, I also value Eric Partridge's "You Hava a Point There", which explains punctuation intuitively as a means for achieving clear, unambiguous expression, and demystifies any presumption that punctuation can only be done one way-- removing some of the worry over being revealed a hopeless mistake of evolution!
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