Fowler's Modern English Usage

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FOWLER'S MODERN ENGLISH USAGE
H. W. FOWLER Second Edition revised by Sir Ernest Gowers
'Let me beg readers as well as writers to keep the revised Fowler at their elbows. It brims with useful __ information.'
Raymond Mortimer, Sunday Times
Fowler is a household name; for over sixty years in successive editions Modern English Usage has been the standard work on the correct but easy and natural use of English, in speech or writing. Its influence has extended even to the battlefield: Churchill wrote to the Director of Military Intelligence about the plans for the invasion of Normandy, 'Why must you write intensive here? Intense is the right word. You should read Fowler's Modern English Usage on the use of the two words.'
Modern English Usage deals with points of grammar, syntax, style, and the choice of words; with the formation
of words and their spelling and inflexions; with pronunciation; and with punctuation and typography. Its great popularity is based not only on its... Tovább

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FOWLER'S MODERN ENGLISH USAGE
H. W. FOWLER Second Edition revised by Sir Ernest Gowers
'Let me beg readers as well as writers to keep the revised Fowler at their elbows. It brims with useful __ information.'
Raymond Mortimer, Sunday Times
Fowler is a household name; for over sixty years in successive editions Modern English Usage has been the standard work on the correct but easy and natural use of English, in speech or writing. Its influence has extended even to the battlefield: Churchill wrote to the Director of Military Intelligence about the plans for the invasion of Normandy, 'Why must you write intensive here? Intense is the right word. You should read Fowler's Modern English Usage on the use of the two words.'
Modern English Usage deals with points of grammar, syntax, style, and the choice of words; with the formation
of words and their spelling and inflexions; with pronunciation; and with punctuation and typography. Its great popularity is based not only on its usefulness, but
also on its iconoclasm and wit. Fowler is at his most readable and funny on such unpromising subjects as split infinitives or 'the false first-personal ONE', and when debunking affectation. Well-thumbed copies of Modern English Usage will today fall open naturally at the indispensable entries on disinterested, due to, jargon, sociologese, or which, that, who.
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