Book Description
Covers basic grammar, punctuation, spelling, and idiomatic phrases of American English.
Author : Bryan A. Garner
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2000
Category :
ISBN : 9780195135084
Covers basic grammar, punctuation, spelling, and idiomatic phrases of American English.
Author : Bryan A. Garner
Publisher : Oxford University
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195161912
Painstakingly researched with copious citations from books, newspapers, and news magazines, this new edition has become the classic reference work praised by professional copy editors.
Author : Roy H. Copperud
Publisher : New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
"This book revises, brings up to date, and consolidates [the author's] two earlier ones: A dictionary of usage and style and American usage." Bibliography: p. 433. Includes index.
Author : Paul W. Lovinger
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 17,4 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780142000465
Features more than one thousand primary entries, along with more than two thousand examples of questionable style and the misuse of language, providing valuable lessons for students, writers, and speakers.
Author : Bryan A. Garner
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
In an age of linguistic uncertainty, this book gives surefooted guidance on the direct, precise, and robust use of the English language. And although the book is scholarly, it is leavened with a dry wit. It is at once entertaining and educational.
Author : Houghton Mifflin Company
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780618604999
Survey of English usage, grammar, and style offering guidance on almost any writing problem imaginable.
Author : Bryan Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1007 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019987462X
Since first appearing in 1998, Garner's Modern American Usage has established itself as the preeminent guide to the effective use of the English language. Brimming with witty, erudite essays on troublesome words and phrases, GMAU authoritatively shows how to avoid the countless pitfalls that await unwary writers and speakers whether the issues relate to grammar, punctuation, word choice, or pronunciation. An exciting new feature of this third edition is Garner's Language-Change Index, which registers where each disputed usage in modern English falls on a five-stage continuum from nonacceptability (to the language community as a whole) to acceptability, giving the book a consistent standard throughout. GMAU is the first usage guide ever to incorporate such a language-change index. The judgments are based both on Garner's own original research in linguistic corpora and on his analysis of hundreds of earlier studies. Another first in this edition is the panel of critical readers: 120-plus commentators who have helped Garner reassess and update the text, so that every page has been improved. Bryan A. Garner is a writer, grammarian, lexicographer, teacher, and lawyer. He has written professionally about English usage for more than 28 years, and his work has achieved widespread renown. David Foster Wallace proclaimed that Bryan Garner is a genius and William Safire called the book excellent. In fact, due to the strength of his work on GMAU, Garner was the grammarian asked to write the grammar-and-usage chapter for the venerable Chicago Manual of Style. His advice on language matters is second to none.
Author : Bryan A. Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1023 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195384202
A comprehensive guide to legal style and usage, with practical advice on how to write clear, jargon-free legal prose. Includes style tips as well as definitions.
Author : Editors of the American Heritage Di
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 21,84 MB
Release : 1996-09-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780547563213
For the first time, the editors of the acclaimed American Heritage(R) Dictionary have applied their efforts to word usage as its own subject. The result is this practical guide that includes chapters on grammar, style, diction, gender, social groups, pronunciation, word formation, science terms, and a subject and a word index.
Author : Bryan Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 27,71 MB
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0190491507
With more than a thousand new entries and more than 2,300 word-frequency ratios, the magisterial fourth edition of this book-now renamed Garner's Modern English Usage (GMEU)-reflects usage lexicography at its finest. Garner explains the nuances of grammar and vocabulary with thoroughness, finesse, and wit. He discourages whatever is slovenly, pretentious, or pedantic. GMEU is the liveliest and most compulsively readable reference work for writers of our time. It delights while providing instruction on skillful, persuasive, and vivid writing. Garner liberates English from two extremes: both from the hidebound "purists" who mistakenly believe that split infinitives and sentence-ending prepositions are malfeasances and from the linguistic relativists who believe that whatever people say or write must necessarily be accepted. The judgments here are backed up not just by a lifetime of study but also by an empirical grounding in the largest linguistic corpus ever available. In this fourth edition, Garner has made extensive use of corpus linguistics to include ratios of standard terms as compared against variants in modern print sources. No other resource provides as comprehensive, reliable, and empirical a guide to current English usage. For all concerned with writing and editing, GMEU will prove invaluable as a desk reference. Garner illustrates with actual examples, cited with chapter and verse, all the linguistic blunders that modern writers and speakers are prone to, whether in word choice, syntax, phrasing, punctuation, or pronunciation. No matter how knowledgeable you may already be, you're sure to learn from every single page of this book.