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Woe is I : the grammarphobe's guide to better English in plain English / Patricia T. O'Conner,.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2003Edition: Second editionDescription: xvi, 240 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1573222526
  • 9781573222525
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428.2 21
LOC classification:
  • 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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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 428.2 OCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A260942B

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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