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| Other authors / contributors: | Bjørge, Anne Kari.
Haugland, Kari E.
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| ISBN: | 9789027277688
9027277680
9027245509
9789027245502
1556193580
9781556193583
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| Notes: | Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-462) and index.
Restrictions unspecified
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| Summary: | Eighteenth-century English grammarians plead eloquently for purity, precision and perspicuity, but their method of teaching largely amounts to citing examples of impurity, imprecision and lack of clarity from contemporary writings. This book is the first of its kind to provide a detailed systematic account of such 'errors'. Apart from source and page references, the Dictionary gives the context of the error (I have not wept this forty years), the correct or 'target' form ('these forty years'), the name of the authors quoted by the grammarians ('Addison', 'Swift'), and the labels which sum up t.
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| Other form: | Print version: Sundby, Bertil. A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700-1800 (DENG). Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, ©1991 9789027245502
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