The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618604995 ISBN 13: 9780618604999

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 2005

Synopsis

An authoritative and comprehensive survey of modern English language usage, grammar, and style is organized in an easy-to-use A-to-Z listing featuring some 1,500 entries that demonstrate correct and incorrect usage with examples and quotations and provide guidelines on punctuation, capitalization, and other style conventions.

About this title

About the Author:

The Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries and of other reference titles published by Houghton Mifflin Company are trained lexicographers with a varied array of interests and expertise. Most of the editors hold graduate degrees and have studied at least one foreign language. Several have degrees in linguistics or in the history of the English language. Others have degrees in science or sometimes other disciplines. All the editors familiarize themselves with the vocabulary in specific subject areas, collect materials on new developments and usage, and work in association with consultants to ensure that the content of our publications is as accurate and as up-to-date as possible.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0618604995
• ISBN 13: 9780618604999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512