Random House's completely revised best-selling guide to good English. Random House Webster's Pocket Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation is perfect for students, business, and anyone who cares about the correct use of English. Includes: • Clear and concise explanations of English grammar with plenty of examples • Common grammatical and stylistic errors and how to avoid them • Quick reference to commonly misspelled words • User-friendly guide to punctuation and capitalization • Easily confused words and how to tell them apart • Convenient pocket size that fits into backpack, purse, or briefcase From the Trade Paperback edition.
This expanded version of the popular Random House Webster’s Pocket Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation offers a clear and precise guide to English. This version includes brand new sections on punctuation, writing, citations, pluralization, abbreviations, numbers, and more, plus quizzes for readers to test their progress and a glossary for easy reference of terms.
Random House's completely revised best-selling guide to good English. Random House Webster's Pocket Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation is perfect for students, business, and anyone who cares about the correct use of English. "Includes": - Clear and concise explanations of English grammar with plenty of examples- Common grammatical and stylistic errors and how to avoid them- Quick reference to commonly misspelled words- User-friendly guide to punctuation and capitalization- Easily confused words and how to tell them apart- Convenient pocket size that fits into backpack, purse, or briefcase
Random House's completely revised best-selling guide to good English. Random House Webster's Pocket Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation is perfect for students, business, and anyone who cares about the correct use of English. Includes: • Clear and concise explanations of English grammar with plenty of examples • Common grammatical and stylistic errors and how to avoid them • Quick reference to commonly misspelled words • User-friendly guide to punctuation and capitalization • Easily confused words and how to tell them apart • Convenient pocket size that fits into backpack, purse, or briefcase
Each of the 180 grammar topics is organized into 2-page sections Explains how the grammar for each topic is used and how to avoid mistakes Includes a tip to help students sound more natural Covers the topics students need to know for the Cambridge ESOL exams (FCE, CAE and CPE).
Among the many topics covered in this handy, pocket-sized guide are air and gases, carpentry and construction, pipes, pumps, computers, electronics, geology, math, surveying and mapping, and weights and measures. Includes tables, charts, drawings, lists & formulas.
The perfect pocket reference library for home, school or office. The set includes: · Random House Webster's Pocket American Dictionary, Fifth Edition · Random House Webster's Pocket American Thesaurus, Second Edition · Random House Webster's Pocket Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation, Second Edition
The Random House Webster’s Rhyming Dictionary is an essential resource for writers, poets and songwriters. An expanded version of the RH Webster’s Pocket edition, it includes: • Approximately 60,000 words • Comprehensive cross-referencing • A glossary of poetic terms • Contemporary proper names and foreign phrases
· A clear, precise guide to correct English · Includes sections on spelling rules and common grammatical errors · Small-format paperback at a great low price
The most original and authoritative voice of today's English lexicography presents a fully revised new edition of his beloved usage dictionary When Bryan Garner published the first edition of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage in 1999, the book quickly became one of the most influential style guides ever written for the English language. After four previous editions and over twenty years, our language has evolved in many ways, and the powerful tool of big data has revolutionized lexicography. This extensively revised new edition fully captures these changes, featuring a thousand new entries and over two hundred replacement entries, thoroughly updated usage data and ratios on word frequency based on the Google Ngram Viewer, a more balanced coverage of World Englishes, not just American and British, and the inclusion of gender-neutral language. However, one thing has not changed: in no sense is this a regular dictionary but a masterpiece of lexicography written with wit and personality by one of the preeminent authorities on the English language. To put it in David Foster Wallace's words, Garner's discussion of rhetoric and style still borders on genius. From the (lost) battle between self-deprecating and self-depreciating to the misuse of it's for its, from the variant spelling patty-cake taking over pat-a-cake in American English to the singular uses of they, Garner explains the nuances of grammar and vocabulary and the linguistic blunders to which modern writers and speakers are prone, whether in word choice, syntax, phrasing, punctuation, or pronunciation. His empirical approach liberates English from two extremes: from the purists who maintain 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 purpose of Garner's dictionary is to help writers, editors, and speakers use the language effectively. And it does so in a playful and persuasive way that will help you sound grammatical but relaxed, refined but natural, correct but unpedantic.
