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Accidence Will Happen: A Recovering Pedant's Guide to English Language and Style
Accidence Will Happen: A Recovering Pedant's Guide to English Language and Style
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A witty, authoritative, and often provocative guide to the use and abuse of the English language, by the LondonTimes's leadgrammar columnist.
Are standards of English alrightor should that be all right?To knowingly split an infinitive or not to?And what about ending a sentence with a preposition, or for that matter beginning one with "and"?
We learn language by instinct, but good English, the pedants tell us, requires rules. Yet, as Oliver Kamm cleverly demonstrates in this new book, many of the purists' prohibitions are bogus and can be cheerfully disregarded.Accidence Will Happenis an authoritative and deeply reassuring guide to grammar, style, and the linguistic conundrums we all face.
Are standards of English alrightor should that be all right?To knowingly split an infinitive or not to?And what about ending a sentence with a preposition, or for that matter beginning one with "and"?
We learn language by instinct, but good English, the pedants tell us, requires rules. Yet, as Oliver Kamm cleverly demonstrates in this new book, many of the purists' prohibitions are bogus and can be cheerfully disregarded.Accidence Will Happenis an authoritative and deeply reassuring guide to grammar, style, and the linguistic conundrums we all face.
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