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Its a refreshing look at a overly prescriptive subject
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Cover 45 indicates what is inside wellmade a start
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Wise and powerful advice for any thoughtful person whether a writer or not
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Now that i know it exists i am sure that my parsing and grammatical construction in english will improve
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Totally agree with pinker about the elements of style
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He is a luckier man that i to socialise with such brilliance and to be judged for that one judged more unfairly
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Yes the book goes into a bit of technical depth here and there but i found i could let that pass over me and still get the main message
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For instance many reviewers have mentioned chapter 4 i found the idea of thinking of trees very helpful even if i could not follow let alone reconstruct all the examples in the book
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Straight off i would have to query the esteemed professor’s semantics steven pinker’s book is less about writing with a sense of style than making sense of english grammar