| Description |
1 online resource (179 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; A/An with Abbreviations; A Historic, etc.; Adverb Placement; Adverb, Start of Sentence; Adverse/Averse; Adviser/Advisor; Historic/Historical; Affect/Effect; After/Following; Allude/Refer; Along With; Alternate/Alternative; Antecedents; As Such (Transition); Assure/Ensure/Insure; As, Followed by ... As; As vs. So; As Well As, Too(Starting Sentence); AttorneyS General, etc.; The Authorities; Award/Reward; Awhile/A While; Bacterium/Bacteria; (Feel) Bad/Badly; Baited/Bated (Breath); Because/Since; Before/Prior To; Beg the Question |
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Beside/BesidesBetween/Among; 'Between ... and, ' Not 'Between ... to'; Between/In Between; Between the Cracks; Bid, Bid, Bade; 'Big of a'; Borne Out, with an 'E'; Both; Brackets; Broadcast, the Verb; Brothers-in-Law, etc.; Call Up; Cardinal/Ordinal Numbers; Cast, the Verb; Center Around/On; Chair/Chairperson; Cohort; Collective; Collective Nouns; Compare To/With; Comprise; Could/Couldn't Care Less; Criterion/Criteria; Curriculum(s); Danglers; Decimate; 'Declined Comment'; Defining Clause; Democratic, the Adjective; Difference/Differential; Different From/Than; Double Possessive I; Double Possessive II |
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Drag/DrugDue To; Each Other/One Another; Echo; Eke; Elegant Variation; Echo; Enormity; Enumerate; Equally As; Essential Clause; 'Ever'; 'In History'; Evoke/Invoke, Precipitate/Precipitous; Facility; False Titles; Farther/Further; Feud; Fewer/Less; First Annual; Firstly; Five Times Below, 160% Less, etc.; Flaunt/Flout; Following; Fondle; Forbid; "Forecasted"; 'Former Native'; Fortuitous; Forum(s); 'A Friend of Mine'; From Whence; Fulsome; Problematic; Fused Participle; Off Of; Gantlet/Gauntlet; Stanch/Staunch; Gerrymander/Jerry-Built/Jury-Rigged; Gibe/Jibe; Gild/Paint the Lily |
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(I Am) Good/(I Am) Well'Graduated College'; Graffito/Graffiti; Hand Down/Hand Up; Hanged/Hung; Have To/Got To; Head/Head Up; Heart-Rending/Heart-Wrenching; He or She; Historic/Historical; Hitting Milestones; Hold (Down) the Fort; Home/Hone; Honored in the Breach; Hopefully; Human Race; Hyphens; 'If Not'; Impact, the Verb; Implement; Imply/Infer; Important/Importantly; Incidence/Incident/Instance; Individuals/People/Persons; 'In History'; In Line/On Line, Online; In Order to; In, Up, and On; Interface; Invoke; Irrelevant (NOT 'Irrevelant'); 'Issues'; Jerry-Built; Jury-Rigged; Jibe |
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Late, as in DeadLend/Loan; Lie, Lay, and All That; 'Lightening'; 'Forecasted'; Like/Such As; Like, with a Clause; Lion's Share; Literally; Loath/Loathe; Located/Situated; Masterful/Masterly; May/Might; Media, Plural; Me, Myself (Reflexive Pronouns); Missive; Mondegreens; Monies; More Than/Over; Myriad; Namesake; Native; Near Miss; Neither; None, Plural; Normalcy; Notoriety; Oddities; Off of; Of Which; 'Older than Him'; 'To She and I'; One in Four: Singular; One Of/Among with Plural Verb; 'One of the Only'; Only, Placement Of; Onomatopoeia; Oral/Verbal; Orient/Orientate; 'Paint the Lily' |
| Summary |
That or Which, and Why is an insightful and witty guide to writing. Based on Evan Jenkins's long-running column 'Language Corner' in Columbia Journalism Review, the book is compiled of brief, alphabetically arranged entries on approximately 200 major writing stumbling blocks, from the wonderful world of 'that' and 'which' to trickier terrain like the correct usage of common idiomatic expressions. Working from his experiences as a newsroom editor and teacher, Jenkins' humorous tone puts the reader at ease, unlike many of the writing and usage guides out there that are off-putting in their rigidi |
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Partake/Participate/Take Part |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135868659 |
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1135868654 |
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