THE KING'S ENGLISH

Fowler, H. W. & F. G.

ISBN 10: 1853263044 / ISBN 13: 9781853263040

Edité par Wordsworth Reference, 1993

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SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1993* Publisher: * Binding and cover condition: Textual soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine (very slight dish) or hinge. Seems un-used. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 372 pp. text. xii pp. index at rear.* Product Description:- The King?s English has established itself during the 20th century as the standard guide to grammar and diction. Like Modern English Usage by H.W.Fowler it has the capacity to delight the reader and infuriate him at the same time. This edition is the last to be revised by H.W.Fowler himself. A newly produced version of a classic work.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st. thus with minimal shelf wear reducing it to VG++* 1993-01-01.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: THE KING'S ENGLISH
• Éditeur: Wordsworth Reference
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1853263044
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781853263040
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: y First Edition Thus
• État de l'article: F/VG++/ND
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

This work contains sections on vocabulary, punctuation and "airs and graces" as well as contentious syntactical sections.

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.
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