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How Not to Write: The Essential Misrules of Grammar Paperback / softback - 2005
by William Safire
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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 / softback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 162
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
- Date 2005-07-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780393327236
- 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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What kind of word is intro for the beginning of a book laying down rules of grammar and usage?
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Citations
- Ingram Advance, 07/01/2005, Page 71
- Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2005, Page 407
- Publishers Weekly, 05/02/2005, Page 185