A revised and updated edition of a humorous primer to the English language, expanded for an American audience, contains entries on correct and questionable usage, a glossary, and a pronunciation guide.
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"The Broadview Book of Common Errors in English offers full coverage of such common mistakes as comma splices, sentence fragments, words frequently confused, words frequently misspelled, mixed metaphors, and subject-verb agreement errors. In each case the problem is clearly expl…
This book is a guide to good usage of English, the American variety, for everyone who is interested in our language and who wants to use it clearly and precisely. This book combines the virtues of unusual readability and the easy accessibility that come from being cast in A to Z…
This book is a guide to good usage of English, the American variety, for everyone who is interested in our language and who wants to use it clearly and precisely. This book combines the virtues of unusual readability and the easy accessibility that come from being cast in A to Z…
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by University of Birmingham, Sinclair, John, (John M.)
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"This study sheds light on the problem of communicative inequality, neglected both by linguists and communication scholars, among speakers of different languages. It provides a four-step Critical Theory analysis of language-based inequality and distortion between speakers of a f…
A revised and updated edition of a humorous primer to the English language, expanded for an American audience, contains entries on correct and questionable usage, a glossary, and a pronunciation guide.