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050 0 0 _aPE1112
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100 1 _aO'Conner, Patricia T.
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245 1 0 _aWoe is I :
_bthe grammarphobe's guide to better English in plain English /
_cPatricia T. O'Conner.
260 _aNew York, New York :
_bPutnam,
_c(c)1996.
300 _axii, 227 pages ;
_c21 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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505 0 0 _aChapter 2: Plurals before swine: blunders with numbers -- Chapter 3: Yours truly: the possessives and the possessed -- Chapter 4: They beg to disagree: putting verbs in their place -- Chapter 5: Verbal abuse: words on the endangered list -- Chapter 6: Comma sutra: the joy of punctuation -- Chapter 7: Compleat dangler: a fish out of water -- Cheater 8: Death sentence: do cliches deserve to die? -- Chapter 9: Living Dead: let bygone rules be gone -- Chapter 10: Saying is believing: how to write what you mean -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index. --
_tChapter 1: Woe Is I: therapy for pronoun anxiety --
_tChapter 2: Plurals before swine: blunders with numbers --
_tChapter 3: Yours truly: the possessives and the possessed --
_tChapter 4: They beg to disagree: putting verbs in their place --
_tChapter 5: Verbal abuse: words on the endangered list --
_tChapter 6: Comma sutra: the joy of punctuation --
_tChapter 7: Compleat dangler: a fish out of water --
_tCheater 8: Death sentence: do cliches deserve to die? --
_tChapter 9: Living Dead: let bygone rules be gone --
_tChapter 10: Saying is believing: how to write what you mean.
520 0 _aIt's been called "possibly the most popular book on grammar ever published." Now the witty bestseller that took the nation by storm is back in a revised, expanded edition with new dos and don'ts from top to bottom. In this new Woe Is I, Patricia T. O'Conner displays the same fresh, irreverent humor that has charmed hundreds of thousands of readers. There are new chapters on spelling and pronunciation, and updates throughout. But you'll find the same down-to-earth explanations in clear, plain English-the same sensible solutions to the grammar mysteries that bug even the best of us. O'Conner manages to unscramble the most complicated problems in simple, easy to- swallow language. So you won't encounter the kind of intimidating terminology that made you want to skip your high school English class. This funny, wise, and indispensable guide shows readers how to: avoid the persistent grammatical errors that tie everyone-even presidents!- in knots watch their tongues and learn to pronounce commonly mangled words correctly use dozens of much-abused words and phrases Whatever your problem-intimidated by possessives? puzzled over pronouns? clueless about how to say "banal"?-the updated Woe Is I provides witty, jargon-free answers to all your questions about the basics as well as the subtleties of grammar, style, and usage. No wonder The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called O'Conner's classic "the best primer on English usage to come along since Strunk and White's The Elements of Style."
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650 0 _aEnglish language
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650 0 _aEnglish language
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