Woe Is I : The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English
ISBN: 9781573223317 | 157322331X
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date: 7/27/2010
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The witty bestseller that untangled the knottiest problems in the English language is back-in a revised, expanded third edition that untangles more knots than ever.
| Preface to the Third Edition | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. xvii |
| Woe Is I | |
| Therapy for Pronoun Anxiety | p. 1 |
| Plurals Before Swine | |
| Blunders with Numbers | p. 17 |
| Yours Truly | |
| The Possessives and the Possessed | p. 35 |
| They Beg to Disagree | |
| Putting Verbs in their Place | p.... MORE |
| Verbal Abuse | |
| Words on the Endangered List | p. 79 |
| Spellbound | |
| How to be Letter Perfect | p. 129 |
| So to Speak | |
| Talking Points on Pronunciation | p. 149 |
| Comma Sutra | |
| The Joy of Punctuation | p. 163 |
| The Compleat Dangler | |
| A Fish out of Water | p. 189 |
| Death Sentence | |
| Do Clichés Deserve to Die? | p. 197 |
| The Living Dead | |
| Let Bygone Rules be Gone | p. 209 |
| Saying is Believing | |
| How to Write what you Mean | p. 223 |
| Glossary | p. 237 |
| Bibliography | p. 251 |
| Index | p. 255 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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