The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
Title | The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style PDF eBook |
Author | Bryan A. Garner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780195135084 |
Covers basic grammar, punctuation, spelling, and idiomatic phrases of American English.
The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
Title | The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style PDF eBook |
Author | Bryan A. Garner |
Publisher | Berkley |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
Part of the latest five-book release in the essential resource library from Oxford University Press and The Berkeley Publishing Group, this abridgment of the "Dictionary of Modern American Usage" offers a comprehensive, alphabetically arranged guide to the usage problems that commonly confront writers today. Contains over 2,000 quotations from published sources showing how language is used.
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 |
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 Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style
Title | The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style PDF eBook |
Author | Paul W. Lovinger |
Publisher | Penguin Group USA |
Pages | 491 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780142000465 |
Features more than one thousand primary entries, along with more than two thousand examples of questionable style and the misuse of language, providing valuable lessons for students, writers, and speakers.
American Usage and Style, the Consensus
Title | American Usage and Style, the Consensus PDF eBook |
Author | Roy H. Copperud |
Publisher | New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
"This book revises, brings up to date, and consolidates [the author's] two earlier ones: A dictionary of usage and style and American usage." Bibliography: p. 433. Includes index.
A Dictionary of Modern American Usage
Title | A Dictionary of Modern American Usage PDF eBook |
Author | Bryan A. Garner |
Publisher | New York : Oxford University Press |
Pages | 760 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN |
In an age of linguistic uncertainty, this book gives surefooted guidance on the direct, precise, and robust use of the English language. And although the book is scholarly, it is leavened with a dry wit. It is at once entertaining and educational.
The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style
Title | The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style PDF eBook |
Author | Houghton Mifflin Company |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780618604999 |
Survey of English usage, grammar, and style offering guidance on almost any writing problem imaginable.