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A great modern and comprehensive tool guide or just general read for any of those interested in the english language
This style guide has lots of tips on grammar and sentence structure and avoids dogma in favor of modern usage
There are words that we continuously misuse such as decimate to mean ‘destroy most of’ instead of ‘destroy a tenth of’
Every battlehardened and weary wordsmith out there will tell you there is more than one way to learn your craft and sharpen you... Read More
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The book arrived in time and it is helpful
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- This product had a total of 2,231 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 20 2024.
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It doesn’t feel like homework
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The most famous style books for example skunk and white prescribe syntax
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Pinker rather aims toward more fluid english rules that lead the reader logically from one idea to the next
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In most style guides “you and me” is correct not “you and i
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In pinker’s opinion this is overly restrictive
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Pinker presents us with a novel way to diagram sentences with a tree structure that ends the leaf nodes in the words of the sentence as they would be read
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Above the leaf nodes pinker groups words by their role in their phrase clause and then clauses are grouped into sentences
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