This invaluable reference work offers the best and most sought-after advice on English grammar based on Henry Fowler's original, which is still a classic text after nearly 80 years. Updated with the use of Oxford's unrivalled language databases, it comprises over 4,200 entries giving clear recommendations on grammar, pronunciation, spelling, syntax, and writing style. Using a wide range of illustrative quotations from well-known authors, as well as from international newspapers and journals, the Guide gives advice on how to avoid common pitfalls in English usage, such as using the split infinitive or deciding between infer and imply or between who and whom. Users of the Guide will find themselves reaching for it again and again, whether they are writing a report, a novel, or a letter to a friend.
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`Review from previous edition Britain's most authoritative guide to English' Robin Young, The Times
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Robert Allen is an experienced lexicographer and writer on a wide range of language issues. A former Senior Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, Chief Editor of the Concise Oxford Dictionary (1990), and an Associate Editor of the Oxford Companion to the English Language (1992), he has written widely on the use of English in modern times.
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a, an, called the indefinite article (or, by some grammarians, determiner). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
early zoc, only form for the adjective, literary word meaning, popularized technicalities, spelt this way, dominant spelling, urative use, recommended spelling, recommended pronunciation, active suffix, intensifying word, confusable words, certain fixed expressions, flected forms, ond syllable, attributive position, youth slang, more formal contexts, capital initial letter, more recent usage, two main meanings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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a, an, called the indefinite article (or, by some grammarians, determiner). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
early zoc, only form for the adjective, literary word meaning, popularized technicalities, spelt this way, dominant spelling, urative use, recommended spelling, recommended pronunciation, active suffix, intensifying word, confusable words, certain fixed expressions, flected forms, ond syllable, attributive position, youth slang, more formal contexts, capital initial letter, more recent usage, two main meanings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Middle English, Old French, South Africa, New Zealand, New Yorker, Concise Oxford Dictionary, American English, British National Corpus, Sir Ernest Gowers, York Times, North America, Daily Telegraph, Review of Books, United States, Chicago Tribune, Literary Supplement, Washington Post, World Wide Web, Kingsley Amis, Scientific American, Australian English, Northern Ireland, English Language, Old Norse Browse Sample Pages:
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