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English language -- Punctuation.
English language -- Rhetoric.
English language -- Usage.
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Gwynne, N. M.
English language -- Grammar.
English language -- Punctuation.
English language -- Rhetoric.
English language -- Usage.
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Gwynne's grammar : the ultimate introduction to grammar and the writing of good English / N.M. Gwynne, M.A. (Oxon.)
by
Gwynne, N. M.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Call #:
808.042 G995g
Subjects
English language -- Grammar.
English language -- Punctuation.
English language -- Rhetoric.
English language -- Usage.
ISBN:
9780385352932 (hc.)
038535293X (hc.)
Alternate title:
Ultimate introduction to grammar and the writing of good English
Edition:
First American Edition.
Description:
xxxvi, 249 p. ; 19 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index.
Summary:
"Crushing national Debt? Climate Change? No: the greatest danger to our way of life is the decline of grammar. Thus preaches the inimitable Mr Gwynne as he shows us the way out of this sorry state. "Grammar is the science of using words rightly, leading to thinking rightly, leading to deciding rightly, without which-as both common sense and experience show-happiness is impossible. Therefore, happiness depends at least partly on good grammar." So writes Mr. Gwynne in his small but perfectly formed new book of grammar with an attitude. Mr. Gwynne believes passionately that we must regain our knowledge of the workings of our language before it is too late. Schools don't teach it, and as the Internet drives the written word to new lows of informality, we approach a tipping point of expressive dysfunction. Into the breach steps this doughty grammarian. Rejecting popular notions that language is simply a matter of the way people use it, he meticulously spells out what tradition and common sense have, over centuries, dictated to be the right and the wrong. His teaching method is also defiantly old school: no one can follow a rule he hasn't committed to memory. But not all rules are equal. For a country whose only broadly subscribed guide to writing is
Strunk
and White, Mr. Gwynne performs a radical procedure. He presents its original seed:
Strunk
's 1918 essay, which E. B. White expanded. But neither form was ever meant as a guide to grammar, and so Mr. Gwynne presents only the kernel of
Strunk
's useful advice as a companion: a guide to putting words together nicely set within Gwynne's wisdom about putting them together correctly. The result is the last word on the subject anyone should need."--From publisher.
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