Says who? : a kinder, funner usage guide for everyone who cares about words / by Anne Curzan, Ph.D.
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- ISBN: 9780593444092
- ISBN: 0593444094
- Physical Description: xiv, 319 pages : illustrations ; 22
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown, 2024.
- Bibliography, etc.: Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-310) and index.
- Formatted Contents: Introduction -- Part 1: Who's in charge here? Inner grammando vs. inner wordie showdown ; Ain't: what get's into dictionaries, and how ; Double negatives: how rules become rules ; "PC" language: why emotions run high -- Part 2: What does that word mean? The funnest chapter ; Verbing ; Feeling hopeful about hopefully ; Quite literally ; Because like ; Gender-neutral chairs -- Part 3: What's the difference? Ask, aks, and asterisk ; Counting less/fewer things ; Data and other disputed plurals ; Different from/than between and among ; Driving safe or safely ; Well, I'm good ; Having proved or proven it -- Part 4: Which pronoun to pick? : The singularity of they ; For who(m) the bell tolls ; Between you and me/I/myself ; None is/are confusing ; Which-hunting -- Part 5: Where does that punctuation go? Commas, commas, and commas ; Rolling stops with semicolons ; The wild west of dashes and hyphens ; When it's its and other apostrophe conundrums ; Bequeathing capital letters -- Part 6: How stylish is that sentence To boldly split infinitives ; Prepositions not to end a sentence with ; When and can start a sentence ; The perceived danger of danglers ; Passives were corrected ; Why writing doesn't "flow" -- Epilogue: navigating grammandos and good sense.
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Subject: | English language > Usage. English language > Grammar. |
Genre: | Informational works. |
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Marvin Memorial Library | 428 CURZ (Text) | 30202002396311 | New Books | Available | - |