The Penguin Dictionary Of American English Usage And Style

Author : Paul W. Lovinger
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
ISBN 13 : 9780142000465
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style written by Paul W. Lovinger and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features more than one thousand primary entries, along with more than two thousand examples of questionable style and the misuse of language, providing valuable lessons for students, writers, and speakers.

Author : Paul W. Lovinger
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606247221
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style written by Paul W. Lovinger and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features more than one thousand primary entries, along with more than two thousand examples of questionable style and the misuse of language, providing valuable lessons for students, writers, and speakers.

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Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417736393
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style: A Readable Referenc written by and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bryan A. Garner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195135084
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style written by Bryan A. Garner and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers basic grammar, punctuation, spelling, and idiomatic phrases of American English.

Author : Robert Lawrence Trask
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Dictionary of English Grammar written by Robert Lawrence Trask and published by Penguin Books, Limited (UK). This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a succinct guide to the grammatical laws and idiosyncrasmies that govern the English language. It focuses on current usage.

Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198808208
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Usage Guides written by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals. Chapters look at how and why these guides are compiled, and by whom; what sort of advice they contain; how they differ from grammars and dictionaries; and how attitudes to usage have changed.

Author : Margaret Nicholson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of American-English Usage, Based on Fowler's Modern English Usage written by Margaret Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings English usage up-to-date and in most instances considers American usage.

Author : Bryan A. Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197599028
Total Pages : 1306 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Garner's Modern English Usage written by Bryan A. Garner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 1306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most original and authoritative voice of today's English lexicography presents a fully revised new edition of his beloved usage dictionary When Bryan Garner published the first edition of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage in 1999, the book quickly became one of the most influential style guides ever written for the English language. After four previous editions and over twenty years, our language has evolved in many ways, and the powerful tool of big data has revolutionized lexicography. This extensively revised new edition fully captures these changes, featuring a thousand new entries and over two hundred replacement entries, thoroughly updated usage data and ratios on word frequency based on the Google Ngram Viewer, a more balanced coverage of World Englishes, not just American and British, and the inclusion of gender-neutral language. However, one thing has not changed: in no sense is this a regular dictionary but a masterpiece of lexicography written with wit and personality by one of the preeminent authorities on the English language. To put it in David Foster Wallace's words, Garner's discussion of rhetoric and style still borders on genius. From the (lost) battle between self-deprecating and self-depreciating to the misuse of it's for its, from the variant spelling patty-cake taking over pat-a-cake in American English to the singular uses of they, Garner explains the nuances of grammar and vocabulary and the linguistic blunders to which modern writers and speakers are prone, whether in word choice, syntax, phrasing, punctuation, or pronunciation. His empirical approach liberates English from two extremes: from the purists who maintain that split infinitives and sentence-ending prepositions are malfeasances and from the linguistic relativists who believe that whatever people say or write must necessarily be accepted. The purpose of Garner's dictionary is to help writers, editors, and speakers use the language effectively. And it does so in a playful and persuasive way that will help you sound grammatical but relaxed, refined but natural, correct but unpedantic.

Author : Roy H. Copperud
Publisher : New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Usage and Style, the Consensus written by Roy H. Copperud and published by New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold. This book was released on 1980 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book revises, brings up to date, and consolidates [the author's] two earlier ones: A dictionary of usage and style and American usage." Bibliography: p. 433. Includes index.

Author : Don Chapman
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1788928393
Total Pages : 279 pages
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Download or read book Language Prescription written by Don Chapman and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific focus on the values associated with both prescriptivism and descriptivism. The chapters, written by authors from many different linguistic and national backgrounds, use a variety of approaches and methods to discuss values in linguistic prescriptivism. In particular, the chapters break down the traditional binary approaches that characterize prescriptive discourse to create a view of the complex phenomena associated with prescriptivism and the values of those who practice it. Most importantly, this volume continues serious academic conversations about prescriptivism and lays the foundation for continued exploration.