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Modern American usage : a guide / Wilson Follett ; revised by Erik Wensberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Follett, Wilson, 1887-1963.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--United States--Usage.
- English language.
- Americanisms--Dictionaries.
- Americanisms.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 362 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hill and Wang, 1998.
- Summary:
- Now fully revised and brought up-to-date, this one-volume course in good writing brims with helpful answers - large and small - for 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 phrase - and 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.
- Notes:
- includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-362).
- ISBN:
- 0809069512
- OCLC:
- 39024815
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