Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage

Name: Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage
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ISBN: 9780199232581

ISBN-10: 019923258X

ISBN-13: 9780199232581

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Robert Allen

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This invaluable reference work offers the best advice on English usage, drawing on the unrivalled resources of Oxford's English Dictionaries program and language monitoring. This second edition of the "Pocket Fowler" harks back to the original 1926 edition of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Henry Fowler, widely regarded as the finest such guide in print. Updated with the use of the Oxford English Corpus, a database of over two billion words, and with up-to-date entries on the language of emails and the Internet, the new edition answers your most frequently asked questions about language use. Should you use a split infinitive or a preposition at the end of a sentence? Is it "infer"…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 1.56" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Robert Allen is a sub-editor at The Sunday Times. He is also part of an eco-social group, An Talamh Glas, which publishes www.bluegreenearth.com, featuring media activists from across the world.