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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,066 ratings — published 1926
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 88,428 ratings — published 1918
Garner's Modern American Usage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.60 — 1,075 ratings — published 1998
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 106,956 ratings — published 2003
The Kingdom at the End of the Road (The Crusades Trilogy, #3)
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avg rating 4.10 — 6,099 ratings — published
Columbia Guide to Standard American English (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.44 — 9 ratings — published 1993
The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 921 ratings — published 2000
And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft and the Industry (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 2,126 ratings — published 2009
The Associated Press Stylebook (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,530 ratings — published 1977
Practical English Usage (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,444 ratings — published 1981
Basic English Usage (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 69 ratings — published
The Dictionary of Clichés: A Word Lover's Guide to 4,000 Overused Phrases and Almost-Pleasing Platitudes (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.84 — 88 ratings — published 2001
New words for old (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1977
Elements of Language, Grade 7 Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Language Skills Practice: Holt Elements of Language First Course (Eolang 2009)
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avg rating 2.33 — 3 ratings — published 2009
Who's (Oops) Whose Grammar Book is This Anyway?: All the Grammar You Need to Succeed in Life
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avg rating 4.09 — 185 ratings — published 2002
Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 866 ratings — published 2024
Guide to Canadian English Usage (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.33 — 6 ratings — published 1997
Associated Press Stylebook And Libel Manual (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 124 ratings — published
Early Magnetism In Its Higher Relations To Humanity: As Veiled In The Poets And The Prophets (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1846
Demonology and witchcraft : with special reference to modern spiritualism, so-called, and the doctrines of demons (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2015
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 3,258 ratings — published 1984
Write It Right: The Celebrated Cynic's Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for 21st-Century Readers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 183 ratings — published 1909
Words into Type (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 128 ratings — published 1948
May I Quote You On That? An Essential Guide for Students and Writers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 51 ratings — published 2015
The Reader Over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 99 ratings — published 1914
Mind the Stop (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 35 ratings — published 1939
The Chicago Manual of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 6,192 ratings — published 1906
The Elements of F*cking Style: A Helpful Parody (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 362 ratings — published 2011
The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 572 ratings — published 1997
A Word or Two Before You Go... (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 22 ratings — published 1986
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 31,662 ratings — published 1976
Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 4,429 ratings — published 1996
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 189 ratings — published 1994
The Little, Brown Compact Handbook (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 133 ratings — published 1993
The English Language: A User's Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 24 ratings — published 2007
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time: Wit and Wisdom from the Popular "On Language" Column in The New York Times Magazine (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 56 ratings — published 2004
The Language Wars: A History of Proper English (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 358 ratings — published 2011
Editing Canadian English (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Miss Thistlebottom's Hobgoblins: The Careful Writer's Guide to the Taboos, Bugbears and Outmoded Rules of English Usage (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 91 ratings — published 1971
Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 511 ratings — published 2003
The Gregg Reference Manual: A Manual of Style, Grammar, Usage, and Formatting (Spiral-bound)
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avg rating 4.27 — 400 ratings — published 1951
How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 4,929 ratings — published 1990
Pen pictures of St. Paul, Minnesota, and biographical sketches of old settlers: from the earliest settlement of the city, up to and including the year 1857 (Nook)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1993
Et Cetera, Et Cetera: Notes of a Word-Watcher (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 91 ratings — published 1990
When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People: How to Avoid Common Errors in English (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 63 ratings — published 2004
Much Ado About English: Up and Down the Bizarre Byways of a Fascinating Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 64 ratings — published 2006
Grammatically Correct (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 497 ratings — published 1997
The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 412 ratings — published 2004
Speed Up Your Spanish: Strategies to Avoid Common Errors (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published 2009
“If, however, the poetic end might have been as well or better attained without sacrifice of technical correctness in such matters, the impossibility is not to be justified, since the description should be, if it can, entirely free from error.”
― The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle
― The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle
“Being skilled in Catsism is like being a ninja only deadlier and not so silent. The only bad thing is the sickening grammar you have to use.”
― Nothing is here...
― Nothing is here...
