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A practical handbook encouraging writers to become more consciously aware of the way in which they employ words, drawing attention to points of grammar and offering hints on various styles of writing.

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0715624229
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1st.Ed.1993(5th.impression)
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Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd(London)
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13.97 x 0.7 x 21.59 cm
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd(London); 1st.Ed.1993(5th.impression) edition (1 Jun. 1993)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 130 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0715624229
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0715624227
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 0.7 x 21.59 cm

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Bozsi D

Tremendously useful, and amusing!

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You'll find a vast amount of useful grammatical and syntactic information here, in a mostly clear and accessible format. The majority should be merely reminders to those who love the English language of nuggets they already knew, but there is still a substantial amount that will have you saying to yourself "well, I never... !"

Regarding Mr Dummett's style, I am not sure he meant to tickle one's funny bone but he did so nevertheless. He also takes us to the nub of the matter, all the while with a faint air of melancholy that we have arrived at our present state of linguistic ignorance. No blame is specifically attached - but I suspect he holds government at least partly responsible, and I have to say that I would agree with him. In many ways this little book is a gem.

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Rees Martin

a grammar explanation.

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I have not read it as i have been busy.

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Hari

this book has great advice on grammar and style

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A very dense book with lots of information. Not exactly light bedtime reading but, if you are willing, this book has great advice on grammar and style. All the stuff is very thought through as well. And the layout is nice.

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Billy Borneo

A great book. By writing for "examination candidates and others" ...

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A great book. By writing for "examination candidates and others" rather than trying to
describe the grammar of current English usage, the author is somewhat
free to take a refreshingly opinionated approach. I particularly like the accurate and
clear description of the "English subjunctive", which Wikipedia authors writing on that
subject could do well to read.

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M. A. B. S

Five Stars

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Amazing book for the price.

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Essential knowledge for the writer (and speaker) of English

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 6 November 2013

I bought Michael Dummett's book when first it arrived in the shops, 20 years ago. I have it still and refer to it as my authority on many of the necessary elements of a healthy language. Its contents would be a sound foundation for university; indeed I think that that was the author's intention in writing it.

Finally, it's not a large book: it is a good read, slim and portable.

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Marcus Williamson

Highly informative and also very entertaining

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 9 October 2007

Michael Dummett is an Oxford philosopher of logic and language. He is, in my opinion, the best of the Anglo-American philosophers in the second half of the last century. So when you are reading this book, you know that this is not just the scribblings of a pedantic writer or journalist. This is the product of one of the finest minds that Britain has produced in recent times, and of a man who has devoted significant amounts of his long life to studying how languages work.

In some respects, Dummett covers the same ground that other writers on style do. He defines the main grammatical categories, gives some stylistic guidelines, and gives the correct meaning of many misused words. What distinguishes Dummett's treatment is the fact that he is rigorous, and also very amusing. His rigour manifests itself in the way that he carefully develops and tests definitions of grammatical phrases and rules. His amusingness manifests in his scorn for those pretending to be able to write well and clearly, and for some American usages of English. In one place, he describes the displacement of the English sense of 'billion' (meaning one million million) by the American sense (meaning one thousand billion) as 'a minor piece of cultural rape'.

This is one of few reference books that I return to regularly, and still read for pleasure.

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T J Benson

Succinct & lucid.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 11 September 2019

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Should be in every home.

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