English language - Usage
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Merriam-Webster’s Guide to Punctuation and Style
$5.99 Add to cartWrite with confidence with this informative, quick-reference guide to punctuation and style!
- Answers questions about punctuation, capitalization, italicization, abbreviation, quotation, and documentat
- Author: Merriam-Webster
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01, 2001
- ISBN10: 0877799210
- Language: English
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Writing with Style: The Economist Guide
$26.95 Read moreA brand-new edition of this classic guide on how to write with style–from The Economist’s language columnist, Lane Greene.
“A lovely book. I vigorously recommend it as an alternative to Strunk and Wh- Series: Economist Books
- Author: Greene, Lane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364374
- Language: English
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If You Were a Verb
$9.99 Read moreProvides an introduction to verbs. Includes an activity.
- Series: Word Fun (Paperback)
- Author: Dahl, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1404819819
- Language: English
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If You Were a Noun
$9.99 Add to cartProvides an introduction to nouns and proper nouns. Includes an activity.
- Series: Word Fun (Paperback)
- Author: Dahl, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1404819800
- Language: English
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Grammatically Correct: The Essential Guide to Spelling, Style, Usage, Grammar, and Punctuation
$19.99 Read moreHow does good writing stand out?
If its purpose is to convey facts, findings, or instructions, it need be read only once for its content to be clear. If its purpose is to entertain or to provoke thoug- Author: Stilman, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 07 2010
- ISBN10: 1582976163
- Language: English
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Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer’s Guide to Getting It Right
$20.00 Add to cartOne of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free grammar.
As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, f- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0767910435
- Language: English
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Correct Your English Errors, Second Edition
$33.00 Add to cartThe bestselling ESL guide–now with extra review exercises to reinforce lessons learned
Do you tend to repeat the same mistakes when you speak or write in English? This fun and engaging guide will help
- Author: Collins, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 20 2017
- ISBN10: 1260019217
- Language: English
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Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them
$14.99 Add to cartFilled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master… [more below]
- Author: Shaw, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0064610446
- Language: English
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Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage
$46.99 Add to cartWhy literally shouldn’t be taken literally. Why Americans think home in on something is a mistake and Brits think hone in is. Is it OK to spell OK okay? What’s wrong with hence why? Was Alanis Morrise… [more below]
- Author: Butterfield, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199661359
- Language: English
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Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English (Fourth Edition)
$18.00 Add to cartA revised and updated edition of the iconic grammar guide for the 21st century.
In this expanded and updated edition of Woe Is I, former editor at The New York Times Book Review Patricia T. O’Conner u- Author: O’Conner, Patricia T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 525533052
- Language: English
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Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
$30.00 Read more“With easygoing authority… [Fridland] offers context, and a welcoming spirit, to the many contentious realignments in our language.”–The Wall Street Journal
“Smart and funny–I loved it!” –Mignon- Author: Fridland, Valerie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0593298322
- Language: English
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Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares about Words
$29.00 Add to cartA kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English, from linguist and veteran professor Anne Cur
- Author: Curzan, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 26, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593444094
- Language: English
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Common Errors in English Usage
$25.00 Add to cartThe third edition is revised and expanded by 20 percent and remains a useful guide to mixed-up, mangled expressions, foreign language faux pas, confusing terms, and commonly mispronounced words.
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- Author: Brians, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 371
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1590282639
- Language: English
