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GUIDE TO BETTER ENGLISH (2nd ed)

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Aiming to provide a lively, practical and sometimes entertaining guide to improving aspects of the reader's English, this book takes as its starting point not the building-blocks of language encountered in traditional grammar books, but rather some of the common errors committed and problems encountered by users of English.

An A-Z section focuses on topics such as the apostrophe, the split infinitive, the hanging participle, recognizing American English, and avoiding cliches.

A reference section discusses the foundation stones of good written English - parts of speech, punctuation and sentence structure. And an extensive, straightforward glossary treads a path through the minefield of grammatical terminology used by grammarians to describe the structures of the language.

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Peter Collin
1901659666 / 9781901659665
Paperback
428
26/02/2001
England
English
188p.
20 cm
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Previous ed.: published as The Guinness guide to better English. Enfield: Guinness, 1996.