The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation

The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation
Title The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation PDF eBook
Author Bryan A. Garner
Publisher Univ of Chicago+ORM
Pages 680
Release 2016-05-16
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 022619129X

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The authoritative guide to using the English language effectively, from “the greatest writer on grammar and usage that this country has ever produced” (David Yerkes, Columbia University). The author of The Chicago Manual of Style’s popular “Grammar and Usage” chapter, Bryan A. Garner is renowned for explaining the vagaries of English with absolute precision and utmost clarity. With The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation, he has written the definitive guide for writers who want their prose to be both memorable and correct. Garner describes standard literary English—the forms that mark writers and speakers as educated users of the language. He also offers historical context for understanding the development of these forms. The section on grammar explains how the canonical parts of speech came to be identified, while the section on syntax covers the nuances of sentence patterns as well as both traditional sentence diagramming and transformational grammar. The usage section provides an unprecedented trove of empirical evidence in the form of Google Ngrams, diagrams that illustrate the changing prevalence of specific terms over decades and even centuries of English literature. Garner also treats punctuation and word formation, and concludes the book with an exhaustive glossary of grammatical terms and a bibliography of suggested further reading and references. The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation is a magisterial work, the culmination of Garner’s lifelong study of the English language. The result is a landmark resource that will offer clear guidelines to students, writers, and editors alike. “[A manual] for those of us laboring to produce expository prose: nonfiction books, journalistic articles, memorandums, business letters. The conservatism of his advice pushes you to consider audience and occasion, so that you will understand when to follow convention and when you can safely break it.”—John E. McIntyre, Baltimore Sun

English Usage Guides

English Usage Guides
Title English Usage Guides PDF eBook
Author Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 229
Release 2018
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0198808208

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This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals. Chapters look at how and why these guides are compiled, and by whom; what sort of advice they contain; how they differ from grammars and dictionaries; and how attitudes to usage have changed.

The American Heritage Book Of English Usage

The American Heritage Book Of English Usage
Title The American Heritage Book Of English Usage PDF eBook
Author Editors of the American Heritage Di
Publisher HarperCollins
Pages 314
Release 1996-09-09
Genre Reference
ISBN 9780547563213

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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.

The Routledge Student Guide to English Usage

The Routledge Student Guide to English Usage
Title The Routledge Student Guide to English Usage PDF eBook
Author Stewart Clark
Publisher Routledge
Pages 403
Release 2016-05-20
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1317391179

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The most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to English usage available, specifically tailored to the needs of students in Higher education Comparative approach, as opposed to a dictionary format, allows the student reader to quickly resolve issues around commonly confused words Includes extensive examples from the most widely used corpora, the British National Corpus and the Corpus of Contemporary American English

Garner's Modern American Usage

Garner's Modern American Usage
Title Garner's Modern American Usage PDF eBook
Author Bryan A. Garner
Publisher Oxford University
Pages 930
Release 2003
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0195161912

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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.

The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage

The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage
Title The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage PDF eBook
Author Pam Peters
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 907
Release 2007-04-26
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 113946521X

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The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage is an up-to-date, evidence-based account of the variable points in Australian usage and style, in alphabetical format. Its description of Australian English uses a wealth of primary sources (linguistic corpora; the internet; public surveys of usage, conducted through Australian Style) as well as the latest editions of English dictionaries, style manuals and grammars. With all this input the Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage provides in-depth coverage of the currency of alternative usages in spelling, punctuation and word choice in Australia, while showing the influence of British and American English here as well. This book is designed for everyone who writes and edits documents and non-fiction texts, for print or electronic delivery. Tertiary students and staff will get plenty of help from it, as well as professional editors who work with manuscripts of many different authors and commissions from multiple publishers.

Line by Line

Line by Line
Title Line by Line PDF eBook
Author Claire Kehrwald Cook
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 244
Release 1985
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780395393918

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Loose, baggy sentences - Faulty connections - III-matched partners - Mismanaged numbers and references - Problems with punctuation - The parts of a sentence.