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Modern American Usage (Paperback)
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A classic since its first edition in 1966, "Modern American Usage"
has been called a book that "every literate American ought to
read." Now fully revised and brought up-to-date, this one-volume
course in good writing brims with helpful answers--large and
small--for readers who want to use English clearly, naturally, and
correctly.
Alphabetical for easy consulting (and full of cross-references),
the book carries the reader to the entry that explains a
troublesome word or phrase--and shows how to use or avoid it. Every
page offers natural ways to avoid saying or writing the vague, the
long-winded, the needlessly technical, and the hopelessly stale.
With verve and eloquence, Erik Wensberg spears the empty words that
clog clear thought--"impact," "frustrated," "basically," and many
more--and offers us good English words that are definite and have
more life.
Offering standards by which to judge language now and in the
future, Modern American Usage takes account of a generation of
changes in American idiom and of attempts to reform the use of
pronouns, titles, and phrases to fit shifting ideals of social
justice. All this it does with easy learning and with sympathy
alike for the experienced writer and for those who come new to
American English.
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