Woe Is I The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English(Third Edition)

Name: Woe Is I The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English(Third Edition)
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ISBN: 9781573223317

ISBN-10: 157322331X

ISBN-13: 9781573223317

Edition: 3rd (Revised)

Authors: Patricia T. O'Conner

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It's been called "possibly the most popular book on grammar ever published." Now the witty bestseller that took the nation by storm is back in a revised, expanded edition with new dos and don'ts from top to bottom. In this new Woe Is I, Patricia T. O'Conner displays the same fresh, irreverent humor that has charmed hundreds of thousands of readers. There are new chapters on spelling and pronunciation, and updates throughout. But you'll find the same down-to-earth explanations in clear, plain English-the same sensible solutions to the grammar mysteries that bug even the best of us. O'Conner manages to unscramble the most complicated problems in simple, easyto- swallow language. So you won't…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Edition: 3rd
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/27/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Patrcia T. O'Conner was an editor at the New York Times Book Review when she wrote Woe Is I. Her writing has appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times and Newsweek. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, Stewart Kellerman.



Preface to the Third Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Woe Is I


Therapy for Pronoun Anxiety



Plurals Before Swine


Blunders with Numbers



Yours Truly


The Possessives and the Possessed



They Beg to Disagree


Putting Verbs in their Place



Verbal Abuse


Words on the Endangered List



Spellbound


How to be Letter Perfect



So to Speak


Talking Points on Pronunciation



Comma Sutra


The Joy of Punctuation



The Compleat Dangler


A Fish out of Water



Death Sentence


Do Clichï¿½s Deserve to Die?



The Living Dead


Let Bygone Rules be Gone



Saying is Believing


How to Write what you Mean


Glossary


Bibliography


Index