Grammar Geek
Author(s): Michael Powell
English is full of beauty and surprises, yet despite being the lingua franca of the globalization world, it has a reputation for being difficult to learn because its grammar has also so many quirks and contradictions.
Did you know:- "Terry loves yogurt" is an example of illeism- preposition stranding is a bogus rule- sometimes it's acceptable to begin a sentence with "but" or "and"- "Could you pass the salt?" is "whimperative"- it's OK to boldy split infinitives.
Many of us don't even know the basics, so not only does Grammar Geek reveal obscure grammar rules and bogus ones you can safely ignore, it's also a handy primer, so in the future you'll have no excuse for dangling a modifier or misplacing a semicolon.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Octopus Publishing Group
- : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- : 0.22
- : 01 September 2019
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- : books
Special Fields
- : Michael Powell
- : Hardback
- : English
- : 96