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Woe is I : the grammarphobe's guide to better English in plain English
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"In these pages you'll find common-sense, jargon-free, even witty answers to all your questions about the basics as well as the subtleties of grammar, style, and usage. Whether you're intimidated b...
"In these pages you'll find common-sense, jargon-free, even witty answers to all your questions about the basics as well as the subtleties of grammar, style, and usage. Whether you're intimidated by possessives, baffled by pronouns, or simply have no idea what a gerund is, Woe Is I can bail you out. Thanks to this book, your days as a grammarphobe are over."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Patricia T. O'Conner
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- Language
- English
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- New York : Riverhead Books, 2003
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- xvi, 240 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781573222525, 1573222526
- OCLC
- ocm51587374
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-232) and index.
- 1. Woe Is I: Therapy for Pronoun Anxiety -- 2. Plurals Before Swine: Blunders with Numbers -- 3. Yours Truly: The Possessives and the Possessed -- 4. They Beg to Disagree: Putting Verbs in Their Place -- 5. Verbal Abuse: Words on the Endangered List -- 6. Comma Sutra: The Joy of Punctuation -- 7. The Compleat Dangler: A Fish out of Water -- 8. Death Sentence: Do Cliches Deserve to Die? -- 9. The Living Dead: Let Bygone Rules Be Gone -- 10. Saying Is Believing: How to Write What You Mean -- 11. E-Mail Intuition: Does Anything Go?