Modern American Usage: A Guide.

Language: English

Published by New York: Hill & Wang, 1998

0809069512 / 9780809069514

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360 p. Sehr guter Zustand, keine Mänge / Very good copy, flawless. - CONTENTS Preface to the Revised Edition How to Use This Book Inventory of Main Entries in the Lexicon LEXICON APPENDIX: On Usage, Pedantry, Grammar, and the Orderly Mind Full Titles of Books Cited in the Text Editors Note. A classic since its first edition in 1966, Modem American Usage has been called a book that every literate American ought to read. Now fully revised and brought up-to-date, this one-volume course in good writing brims with helpful answerslarge and smallfor readers who want to use English clearly, naturally, and correctly. Alphabetical for easy consulting (and full of cross-references), the book carries the reader to the entry that explains a troublesome word or phraseand shows how to use or avoid it; no time lost in wondering whether the problem is one of grammar, syntax, or style. Every page offers natural ways to avoid saying or writing the vague, the long-winded, the needlessly technical, and the hopelessly stale. With verve and eloquence, Erik Wensberg spears the empty words that clog clear thoughtimpact, frustrated, basically, and many more and offers us good English words that are definite and have more life. As language changes, many manuals simply note what is new and why some people prefer it. Readers of Modem American Usage learn standards by which to judge language now and in the future. The book takes account of a generation of changes in American idiom and of attempts to reform the use of pronouns, titles, and phrases to fit shifting ideas of social justice. All this it does with easy learning and with sympathy alike for the experienced writer and for those who come new to American English. ISBN 9780809069514 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 495.…

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Modern American Usage: A Guide.
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Follett, Wilson and Erik Wensberg:
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New York: Hill & Wang
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1998
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