Garner's modern English usage
Over 6000 entries With more than a thousand new entries and more than 2,300 word-frequency ratios, the magisterial fourth edition of Garner’s Modern English Usage reflects usage lexicography at its finest. It delights while providing instruction on skillful, persuasive, and vivid writing. Garner lib...
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| Format: | eBook Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2016
Oxford University Press, Incorporated |
| Edition: | 4 |
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| ISBN: | 9780190491482, 0190491485 |
| Online Access: | Get full text |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover -- Garner's Modern English Usage - Fourth Edition -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- The State of the Language -- First Principles -- The State of the Genre -- Quotations and Citations -- Lexicographic Methods -- Value Judgments -- An Autobiographical Note -- Acknowledgments -- List of Essay Entries -- List of Abbreviations -- Pronunciation Guide -- Key to the Language-Change Index -- Making Peace in the Language Wars -- The Wars -- Explaining the Rift -- Reconciling the Camps -- Terms of the Truce -- The Ongoing Tumult in English Usage -- A Solecistic Summary -- Key to the Solecistic Summary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Glossary of Grammatical, Rhetorical, and Other Language-Related Terms -- A Timeline of Books on Usage -- Select Bibliography -- Select Index of Writers Quoted or Mentioned