The King's English - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1230400710 ISBN 13 : 9781230400716

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The compilers of this book would be wanting in courtesy if they did not expressly say what might otherwise be safely left to the readers discernment: the frequent appearance in it of any authors or newspapers name does not mean that that author or newspaper offends more often than others against rules of grammar or style; it merely shows that they have bken among the necessarily limited number chosen to collect instances from. The plan of the book was dictated by the following considerations. It is notorious that English writers seldom look into a grammar or composition book; the reading of grammars is repellent because, being bound to be exhaustive on a greater or less scale, they must give much space to the obvious or the unnecessary; and composition books are often useless because they enforce their warnings only by fabricated blunders against which every tiro feels himself quite safe. The principle adopted here has therefore been (i) to pass by all rules, of whatever absolute importance, that are shown by observation to be seldom or never broken; and (2) to illustrate by living examples, with the name of a reputable authority attached to each, all blunders that observation shows to be common. The reader, however, who is thus led to suspect that the only Oiethod followed has been the rejection of method will find, it is hoped, a practical security against inconvenience in the ery full I ndex.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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À propos de cette édition

• ISBN 10: 1230400710
• ISBN 13: 9781230400716
• Reliure: Broché