Description
A critically acclaimed guide to English usage. Includes 2,300 entries presenting the history, analysis, and recommendations regarding noted usage controversies. Covers words such as hopefully, impact, fulsome, flaunt/flout, equable/equitable, complement/compliment, between/among, flautist/flutist, and inflict/afflict. Also covers such topics as double negatives and dangling modifiers and extensive coverage of collocations. Entries are illustrated with more than 20,000 quotations from prominent writers.
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