- Paperback: 150 pages
- Publisher: Ivy Publishing; 7th edition edition (Aug 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 062015019X
- ISBN-13: 978-0620150194
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 420,445 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a short and easy, well-received crash course for businessmen, undergraduates, teachers and others who wish to improve their use of the English language. This lively book is also useful for those studying English as a second language. Emphasis rests on the book being a "turner-on-of-lights" rather than a structured reference work. The author includes a vigorous section on "Gas Bag English" and a chapter entitled the "Ruins of High Precision" which provides an account of the use of punctuation and vocabulary, simile and metaphor.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent,
This review is from: Mend Your English: Or What You Should Have Been Taught at Primary School (Paperback)
I have kooked at a number of books on English.For me, this is the best. It shows what a poweful language good English is, and how to use it.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Plain English explained brilliantly.,
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This review is from: Mend Your English: Or What You Should Have Been Taught at Primary School (Paperback)
If you aspire to clear thought, if you are a teacher or parent, if you want to put right the wrongs of your schooling, you must read this book Bruton-Simmonds wastes not a single word in his demolition of the vulgar and the flabby in the way we speak and write today. But this is more than a book on grammar: clarity and precision of thought, he argues, go hand-in-hand with clear and precise English. I agree. I suspect this will be uncomfortable reading for those with nothing to say but who say it anyway. For the rest this is a littel jewel.
10 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
There are far better books in this field,
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This review is from: Mend Your English: Or What You Should Have Been Taught at Primary School (Paperback)
There is clearly a need for books like these, and Mr Bruton-Simmonds has sought to exploit a potentially lucrative market. However he has little of worth to say, and there are many better books out the which cover the same ground.The book is poorly structured, so cannot be used as a reference book or grammar. There is little universality to the advice which instead comes across as semi-random series of predjudices. That the book tails off into a long, irrelevant diatribe about pop music underlines the author's highly subjective and personal approach. Worse, some of his advice is incorrect, at other times of limited usefulness.
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