Have you eaten grandma?, or, the life-saving importance of correct punctuation, grammar, and good English /
A style manual for English speakers on both sides of the Atlantic identifies the common mistakes and correct usage of everything from dangling participles to transitive verbs.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,
2019.
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| Edition: | First Atria books hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Language is power
- Have you eaten grandma? : basic punctuation
- Must dash--hyphen can wait : dashes, hyphens, slashes, and more!
- Apostrophe now : apostrophes, possession, and omission
- Spelling is big potatoes : spelling rules, prefixes, and silent letters
- Of mice & meece & mouses : pluralization and word roots
- Yanks away : British versus American English
- A bad spell of whether : homophones and heterography
- LOL--YOLO--hahaha : abbreviations, initialisms, and acronyms
- Bad language? : offensive language, slang, and wordplay
- The rules : guidance for good communication
- Postscript: The language of grammar.