The Cambridge guide to English usage / Pam Peters.
This volume is an up-to-date, accessible A-Z guide to style and usage in international English.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Online Access: | Sample text |
| Summary: | This volume is an up-to-date, accessible A-Z guide to style and usage in international English. "The Cambridge Guide to English Usage is an A-Z reference book, giving an up-to-date account of the debatable issues of English usage and written style. Its advice draws on a wealth of recent research and data from very large corpora of American and British English - illuminating their many divergences and also points of convergence on which international English can be based. The book comprises more then 4,000 points of word meaning, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and larger issues of inclusive language, and effective writing and argument. It also provides guidance on grammatical terminology, and covers topics in electronic communication and the internet. The discussion notes the major dictionaries, grammars and usage books in the USA, UK, Canada and Australia, allowing readers to calibrate their won practices as required. CGEU is descriptive rather than prescriptive, but offers a principled basis for implementing progressive or more conservative decisions on usage."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 608 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Audience: | Tertiary/Undergraduate. General. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 604-608). |
| ISBN: | 052162181X 9780521621816 |