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'You will never doubt your written English again.' --Evening Standard
'A straightforward and accessible handbook for anyone who ever has a query about correct English - and that's all of us.' Freelance News 'Never dogmatic, never patronising, it's a book that belongs close to the desk of every person who has to put pen to paper. A book that will grow dog-eared with use. But you'll always be grateful that it was written.' Michael Carson, Author 'This is an excellent book; good value and useful...buy it!' V. Tilbury, Cranfield University" 'A very useful tool...could easily fill that hole on your bookshelf.' --Irish Independent
'A straightforward and accessible handbook for anyone who ever has a query about correct English - and that's all of us.' Freelance News 'Never dogmatic, never patronising, it's a book that belongs close to the desk of every person who has to put pen to paper. A book that will grow dog-eared with use. But you'll always be grateful that it was written.' Michael Carson, Author 'This is an excellent book; good value and useful...buy it!' V. Tilbury, Cranfield University" 'A very useful tool...could easily fill that hole on your bookshelf.' --Irish Independent
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Angela Burt has had a successful career as an English teacher and examiner and now runs a proofreading company. She has written many other books on the correct use of the English language, including Increase Your Word Power and Write with Confidence and Model Everyday Letters.
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Bought because of a section advertised in 'Look Inside' Unfortunatley was the only good bit of the book - the rest very basic
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Excellent Office Tool
13 Dec 2010
Format:Paperback
This little book has been our go to book often. It is not a teaching book, but rather a book of quick answers listed alphabetically. For example if you are trying to determine whether you should use affect or effect in your sentence, you can turn to the a's or the e's and find the answer listed. As Americans working in England, both my husband and I appreciated the attention to spelling and usage differences between the two countries as in dependant vs. dependent. For semicolon issues, you look under "s" and so on. Of course it does not have every answer you could ever need, but for the most part it has been helpful about 90% of the time. There are some really silly answers in the book, such as, use didn't not did'nt. Seriously, if you have to look for help on that then you need something more like a lesson book. However, something had to fill up all those pages. The book we have has a different cover than shown in this picture and it is the third edition. (We bought it in England.) We are now living in the United States again and our offices are in different locations. My husband has been calling me to look up the occasional problem for him in this book. That is rather annoying so I turned to Amazon.com to get him his very own copy. By the way, we also like the "Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation" by John Seely. This book is arranged the same way but much more grammar focused (no spelling) and more technical. The two together are good desk references.
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