Woe is I : the grammarphobe's guide to better English in plain English / Patricia T. O'Conner,.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2003Edition: Second editionDescription: xvi, 240 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1573222526
- 9781573222525
- 428.2 21
- PE1112 .O28 2003
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Woe Is I: Therapy for Pronoun Anxiety -- 2. Plurals Before Swine: Blunders with Numbers -- 3. Yours Truly: The Possessives and the Possessed -- 4. They Beg to Disagree: Putting Verbs in Their Place -- 5. Verbal Abuse: Words on the Endangered List -- 6. Comma Sutra: The Joy of Punctuation -- 7. The Compleat Dangler: A Fish out of Water -- 8. Death Sentence: Do Cliches Deserve to Die? -- 9. The Living Dead: Let Bygone Rules Be Gone -- 10. Saying Is Believing: How to Write What You Mean -- 11. E-Mail Intuition: Does Anything Go? -- Glossary.
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 428.2 OCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A260942B |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-232) and index.
Introduction -- 1. Woe Is I: Therapy for Pronoun Anxiety -- 2. Plurals Before Swine: Blunders with Numbers -- 3. Yours Truly: The Possessives and the Possessed -- 4. They Beg to Disagree: Putting Verbs in Their Place -- 5. Verbal Abuse: Words on the Endangered List -- 6. Comma Sutra: The Joy of Punctuation -- 7. The Compleat Dangler: A Fish out of Water -- 8. Death Sentence: Do Cliches Deserve to Die? -- 9. The Living Dead: Let Bygone Rules Be Gone -- 10. Saying Is Believing: How to Write What You Mean -- 11. E-Mail Intuition: Does Anything Go? -- Glossary.
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