Displaying 1 of 1 2009 Format: Book Author: O'Conner, Patricia T. Title: Woe is I : the grammarphobe's guide to better English in plain English / Patricia T. O'Conner. Edition: Updated and expanded 3rd ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Riverhead Books, 2009. Description: xx, 265 pages ; 21 cm Summary: This updated edition of the witty bestseller provides jargon-free answers to the basics of grammar, style, and usage. Subjects: English language -- Grammar -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. English language -- Usage -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Notes: Rev. and updated ed. of: 3rd ed., 2008. Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-253) and index. Contents: Woe is I: therapy for pronoun anxiety -- Plurals before swine: blunders with numbers -- Yours truly: the possessives and the possessed -- They beg to disagree: putting verbs in their place -- Verbal abuse: words on the endangered list -- Spellbound: how to be letter perfect -- So to speak: talking points on pronunciation -- Comma sutra: the joy of punctuation -- The compleat dangler: a fish out of water -- Death sentence: do clichés deserve to die? -- The living dead: let bygone rules be gone -- Saying is believing: how to write what you mean. LCCN: 2009023299 ISBN: 9781594488900 1594488908 9781573223317 157322331X Other Number: 311778310 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 668052 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 428.2 O'Conner Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
