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Pub. Date
2013
Description
These are interesting times for word nerds. We ate, shot and left, bonding over a joke about a panda and some rants about greengrocers who abuse apostrophes. We can go on Facebook and vow to judge people when they use poor grammar.
Could you care less? Does bad grammar or usage "literally" make your head explode? Test your need for this new book with these sentences:
"Katrina misplaced many residents of New Orleans from their homes."
"Sherry finally...
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"Whether you're editing your own writing or someone else's, you will find Lapsing Into a Comma an invaluable and entertaining resource. Part commentary, part stylebook, it addresses not only the usual usage topics (split infinitives, that vs. which and a historic vs. an historic) but also some issues too new or obscure to be found in the traditional manuals (e-mail vs. email, how to tell a playmate from a Playboy Bunny and why a right hook is a bad...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"The Redbook is intended to be the definitive guide for considering the soundness of your choice in legal writing and editing. If you're editing, you ought to know why your edits make sense. You should be able to justify every edit you make, even if it's just a punctuation mark. You'll do well if you learn to know what you're doing and why."--Preface to the Fourth Edition
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