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Literally, the Best Language Book Ever
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Paul Yeager |
By turns gleefully precise and happily contrarian,this is a highly opinionated guide to bettercommunication. In Literally, the Best LanguageBook Ever, author Paul Yeager attacks with alinguistic scal… |
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Common grammatical mistakes
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Ann Riggs |
"An examination of the rules behind English grammar, focusing on the most common mistakes made by writers--including dangling participles, run-on sentences, and misused words--and how to fix them"--P… |
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Ve lo que dices
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Nancy Tabor |
Demonstrates the different ways people look at the same situations by presenting contrasting idiomatic expressions in both English and Spanish. Example: Someone important is a "big wheel" in English … |
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Bad English
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Ammon Shea |
"The author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language 'mistakes' and how they came to be accepted as correct--or not. English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together from… |
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The dictionary of worthless words
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Dave Dowling |
Contains 3,000 unessential and pointless words and phrases that make writing clumsy and unclear, and offers examples of more concise alternatives. |
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More anguished English
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Richard Lederer |
Humorous abuses and errors in the use of English |
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Mind the Gaffe
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R.L. Trask |
Can anything be described as 'very real'? There are so many obstacles on the way to writing clear, precise ('accurate'?) English ('english'?) that it is a wonder ('wander'?) anyone ('any one' or 'any… |
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