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How Not to Write: The Essential Misrules of Grammar Paperback - 2005
by William Safire
Safire spotlights the "essential misrules of grammar," those mistakes that call attention to the major rules and regulations of writing. He provides entertaining advice on language, grammar and life, covering a vast territory from capitalization, split infinitives, run-on sentences and semi-colons to contractions, the double negative, dangling participles and even onomatopoeia.
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- Title How Not to Write: The Essential Misrules of Grammar
- Author William Safire
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 162
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
- Date 2005-07-01
- ISBN 9780393327236 / 039332723X
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.72 x 4.8 x 0.52 in (19.61 x 12.19 x 1.32 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 428.002
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- Ingram Advance, 07/01/2005, Page 71
- Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2005, Page 407
- Publishers Weekly, 05/02/2005, Page 185
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