Woe is I : the grammarphobe's guide to better English in plain English /
O'Conner, Patricia T.
Woe is I : the grammarphobe's guide to better English in plain English / Patricia T. O'Conner,. - Second edition. - xvi, 240 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-232) and index.
Introduction -- Woe Is I: Therapy for Pronoun Anxiety -- Plurals Before Swine: Blunders with Numbers -- Yours Truly: The Possessives and the Possessed -- They Beg to Disagree: Putting Verbs in Their Place -- Verbal Abuse: Words on the Endangered List -- Comma Sutra: The Joy of Punctuation -- The Compleat Dangler: A Fish out of Water -- Death Sentence: Do Cliches Deserve to Die? -- The Living Dead: Let Bygone Rules Be Gone -- Saying Is Believing: How to Write What You Mean -- E-Mail Intuition: Does Anything Go? -- Glossary. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
1573222526 9781573222525
2003041416
English language--Grammar--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English language--Usage--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
PE1112 / .O28 2003
428.2
Woe is I : the grammarphobe's guide to better English in plain English / Patricia T. O'Conner,. - Second edition. - xvi, 240 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-232) and index.
Introduction -- Woe Is I: Therapy for Pronoun Anxiety -- Plurals Before Swine: Blunders with Numbers -- Yours Truly: The Possessives and the Possessed -- They Beg to Disagree: Putting Verbs in Their Place -- Verbal Abuse: Words on the Endangered List -- Comma Sutra: The Joy of Punctuation -- The Compleat Dangler: A Fish out of Water -- Death Sentence: Do Cliches Deserve to Die? -- The Living Dead: Let Bygone Rules Be Gone -- Saying Is Believing: How to Write What You Mean -- E-Mail Intuition: Does Anything Go? -- Glossary. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
1573222526 9781573222525
2003041416
English language--Grammar--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English language--Usage--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
PE1112 / .O28 2003
428.2