Woe is I : (Record no. 1144)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780525533054
International Standard Book Number 0525533052
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)1031048462
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PE1112
Item number .O26 2019
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name O'Conner, Patricia T.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Woe is I :
Remainder of title the grammarphobe's guide to better English in plain English /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Patricia T. O'Conner.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 4th ed., Updated and expanded.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Riverhead Books,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2019.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxii, 298 p.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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: No-nos, yeses, and maybes -- 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 cliches deserve to die? -- The living dead: Let bygone rules be gone -- Saying is believing: How to write what you mean.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In this expanded and updated edition of Woe Is I, former editor at The New York Times Book Review Patricia T. O'Conner unties the knottiest grammar tangles with the same insight and humor that have charmed and enlightened readers of previous editions for years. With fresh insights into the rights, wrongs, and maybes of English grammar and usage, O'Conner offers in Woe Is I down-to-earth explanations and plain-English solutions to the language mysteries that bedevil all of us. "Books about English grammar and usage are ... never content with the status quo," O'Conner writes. "That's because English is not a stay-put language. It's always changing--expanding here, shrinking there, trying on new things, casting off old ones ... Time doesn't stand still and neither does language." In this fourth edition, O'Conner explains how the usage of an array of words has evolved. For example, the once-shunned "they," "them," and "their" for an unknown somebody is now acceptable. And the battle between "who" and "whom" has just about been won, O'Conner says (hint: It wasn't by "whom"). Then there's the use of "taller than me" in simple comparisons, instead of the ramrod-stiff "taller than I." "May" and "might," "use to" and "used to," abbreviations that use periods and those that don't, and the evolving definition of "unique" are all explained here by O'Conner.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element English language
General subdivision Grammar
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Topical term or geographic name entry element English language
General subdivision Usage
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