Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide To Better English In Plain English - Softcover

O'Conner, Patricia T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594480060 ISBN 13: 9781594480065

Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2004

Synopsis

An expanded edition of the best-selling guide to English grammar and usage encompasses the latest updates to the English language, providing straightforward coverage of common mistakes and usage errors while offering a new chapter on Internet and e-mail language. Reprint.

About this title

Review:

"Woe Is I is the best primer on English usage to come along since Strunk and White's The Elements of Style."

"Woe Is I" is great fun. (Susan Isaacs) "Woe Is I" is the best primer on English usage to come along since Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style," ("Atlanta Journal-Constitution")

About the Author:

Patricia T. O'Conner, a former editor at the New York Times Book Review, has written for many magazines and newspapers. She is the author of two other books on language and writing, Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know About Writing and, with Stuart Kellerman, You Send Me: Getting it Right When You Write Online.

About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1594480060
• ISBN 13: 9781594480065
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240