One day in the life of the English language
Subtitle: a microcosmic usage handbook
By: Frank L. Cioffi
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780691165073
Subjects: Usage; Rhetoric; Grammar; English language; Handbooks, manuals
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-349) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Actants, actions, ongoing states ; nouns, verbs, and the sentences they form; title: Words that modify and orient : adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, articles, interjections; title: Who is he/she? : pronouns; title: Punctuation, part I : the comma; title: promiscuous uses; title: Punctuation, part II : the colon, semicolon, and more mysteries of punctuation; title: diction : sentences as clockwork; title: Appendix I. Fifteen myths of digital-age English; title: Appendix II. Using this book to teach college writing : a microguide; title: fifty key terms : a microglossary.