Webster's Word Power Better English Usage
Express Yourself Clearly
Published on 31. August 2014
384 pages
978-1-84205-786-5 (ISBN)
Description
Explains common mistakes in English and how to correct your use of language effectively. Useful to students of Standard English in schools and colleges, as well as learners of English as a foreign language.
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04/2014
Geddes & Grosset
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Betty Kirkpatrick is a lexicographer and has worked for leading dictionary publishers.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Better English Usage
- CONTENTS
- 1 THE CHANGING FACE OF ENGLISH
- HISTORICAL CHANGES IN VOCABULARY
- CHANGES OF MEANING
- Words whose meaning has changed
- MORE VOCABULARY CHANGES
- Slow but sure
- OTHER SIGNS OF CHANGE
- Changes in accompanying verbs
- The American Influence
- Still two separate languages
- CHANGES IN GRAMMAR
- Split infinitive
- Sentences ending in a preposition
- Other usage changes
- DESEXING GRAMMAR
- Getting rid of sexism
- INFORMALITY
- Omitted punctuation
- Contracted forms
- Greetings
- Slang and colloquialisms
- THE DECLINE OF DICTIONARIES
- 2 PUNCTUATING PROPERLY
- PUNCTUATION THEN AND NOW
- COMMON ERRORS IN PUNCTUATION
- Apostrophe
- Brackets
- Capital letter
- Colon
- Semi-colon
- Comma
- Dash
- Exclamation mark
- Full stop
- Hyphen
- Paragraph
- Question mark
- Quotation marks
- 3 IRREGULAR PLURAL NOUNS
- 4 PROBLEMATIC PREPOSITIONS
- PREPOSITIONS
- What follows what?
- 5 PHRASAL VERBS
- PHRASAL OR SINGLE VERB?
- FIGURATIVE OR LITERAL MEANING?
- POSITION OF THE OBJECT
- COMPLEX PHRASAL VERBS
- Phrasal verbs in action
- 6 DISPOSING OF DISCRIMINATION
- DESEXING THE LANGUAGE
- Feminist additions to the language
- Removing -man
- Is mankind no more?
- Person
- -Ess
- -Ette
- Lady/woman/female
- Female as a noun
- Girl
- Partners or what?
- POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
- Removing offensive terms
- The colour of your skin
- AGEISM
- 7 VEXING VERBS
- WHAT IS A VERB?
- REGULAR VERBS
- Spelling rules for regular verbs
- IRREGULAR VERBS
- Rules for irregular verbs
- ASPECTS OF VERBS LIKELY TO CAUSE PROBLEMS
- Participles and participial phrases
- -ing form of verbs
- Verb agreement
- Mood
- Voice
- Tense
- Modal verbs
- THE ANTI-VERB BRIGADE
- SOME IRREGULAR VERBS
- 8 CONFUSION UPON CONFUSION
- HOMOPHONES
- RP
- Homophone examples
- HOMOGRAPHS
- Homograph examples
- HOMONYMS
- Homonym examples
- ORONYMS
- A MISCELLANY OF MISTAKES
- Similar but dissimilar
- VARIABLE VERBS
- PERSONAL AND FAMILIAL CONFUSION
- PERENNIAL POSERS
- Which word?
- 9 PUTTING IT IN WRITING
- Copyright
- OTHER TITLES IN THIS SERIES
- Back Cover
