Dreyer's English : an utterly correct guide to clarity and style /
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Author / Creator: | Dreyer, Benjamin, author. |
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Imprint: | New York : Random House, [2019] ©2019 |
Description: | xviii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11752521 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: By Way of Introduction
- Part I. The Stuff in the Front
- Chapter 1. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (Your Prose)
- Chapter 2. Rules and Nonrules
- Chapter 3. 67 Assorted Things to Do (and Not to Do) with Punctuation
- Chapter 4. 1, 2, 3, Go: The Treatment of Numbers
- Chapter 5. Foreign Affairs
- Chapter 6. A Little Grammar Is a Dangerous Thing
- Chapter 7. The Realities of Fiction
- Part II. The Stuff in the Back
- Chapter 8. Notes on, Amid a List of, Frequently and/or Easily Misspelled Words
- Chapter 9. Peeves and Crotchets
- Chapter 10. The Confusables
- Chapter 11. Notes on Proper Nouns
- Chapter 12. The Trimmables
- Chapter 13. The Miscellany
- Outro: By Way of Conclusion
- Things I Like
- Acknowledgments
- Index