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English Language Errors Of Usage
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Accidence will happen : a recovering pedant's guide to English language and style


Kamm, Oliver, 1963- author.
New York : Pegasus Books, 2016. 2016

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The accidents of style : good advice on how not to write badly


Elster, Charles Harrington.
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2010. 2010

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Barron's 1001 pitfalls in English grammar


Hopper, Vincent F. (Vincent Foster), 1906-1976.
Woodbury, N.Y. : Barron's Educational Series, [1986] 1986

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Between you & me : confessions of a comma queen


Norris, Mary.
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. 2015

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Between you & me : confessions of a comma queen


Norris, Mary, 1952-
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2015. 2015

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Comma sense : your guide to grammar victory


Feld, Ellen Sue, author.
Coral Gables, FL : Mango Publishing, [2022] 2022

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Common grammatical mistakes


Riggs, Ann, author.
Mankato, Minnesota : Creative Education, [2012] 2012

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A dictionary of modern American usage


Horwill, H. W. (Herbert William), 1864-1952.
Oxford : Clarendon Press [1944] 1944

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A dictionary of modern English usage


Fowler, H. W. (Henry Watson), 1858-1933.
Oxford, Eng. : Clarendon Press, 1982. 1982

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A dictionary of modern English usage


Fowler, H. W. (Henry Watson), 1858-1933.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1965. 1965

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Dreyer's English : good advice for good writing : (adapted for young readers)


Dreyer, Benjamin, author.
New York : Delacorte Press, [2021] 2021

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English verb conjugations : 123 irregular verbs fully conjugated, tense, mood, number


Hopper, Vincent F. (Vincent Foster), 1906-1976.
Woodbury, N.Y. : Barron's Educational Series, [1975] 1975

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Errors in English and ways to correct them


Shaw, Harry, 1905-1998.
New York, NY : HarperPerennial, [1993] 1993

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Essential idioms in English : with exercises for practice and tests


Dixson, Robert J. (Robert James)
New York : Regents Pub. Co., 1983. 1983-

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Grammar Girl's 101 troublesome words you'll master in no time


Fogarty, Mignon.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012. 2012

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Have you eaten grandma? : or, the life-saving importance of correct punctuation, grammar, and good E


Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney, 1948- author.
New York : Atria Books, 2019. 2019

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How to tell fate from destiny : and other skillful word distinctions


Elster, Charles Harrington, author.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. 2018

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Inglés exprés : cómo evitar los errores más frecuentes


Winshsley, Jack.
Barcelona : De Vecchi Ediciones, [2012] 2012

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Junk English


Smith, Ken, 1958-
New York : Blast Books, 2001. 2001

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The king's English


Fowler, H. W. (Henry Watson), 1858-1933.
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; London : H. Milford, 1919. 1919

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Making sense of "bad English" : an introduction to language attitudes and ideologies


Peterson, Elizabeth (Professor of linguistics), author.
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. 2020

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More language that needs watching; second aid for writers and editors, emanating from the news room


Bernstein, Theodore M. (Theodore Menline), 1904-1979.
Manhasset, N.Y. : Channel Press [1962] 1962

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The most common mistakes in English usage.


Berry, Thomas Elliott, author
Philadelphia, Chilton [1961] 1961

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Much ado about a lot : how to mind your manners in print and in person


Bruder, Mary Newton, 1939-
New York : Hyperion, [2000] 2000

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On language


Safire, William, 1929-2009.
New York : Avon, 1981. 1980

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A second book of English idioms : with explanations.


Collins, Vere H. (Vere Henry), 1872-1966
London; New York : Longmans, Green [1958] 1958

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That doesn't mean what you think it means : the 150 most commonly misused words and their tangled hi


Petras, Kathryn author.
New York : Ten Speed Press, 2018. 2018

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Under the grammar hammer : the 25 most common grammar mistakes and how to avoid them


Cazort, Douglas.
Los Angeles : Lowell House ; Chicago : Contemporary Books, 1992. 1992

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Under the grammar hammer : the 25 most important grammar mistakes and how to avoid them


Cazort, Douglas.
New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 2002. 2002

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Usage and abusage : a guide to good English


Partridge, Eric, 1894-1979.
New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton, 1995. 1995

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What's the good word?


Safire, William, 1929-2009.
New York : Times Books, [1982] 1982

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What's the good word? : a new way to better English.


Nurnberg, Maxwell W.
New York Simon and Schuster, 1942. 1942

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Word savvy : use the right word every time, all the time


Ragno, Nancy Nickell.
Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest, [2011] 2011

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Write it right : a little blacklist of literary faults


Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
New York and Washington : The Neale publishing company, 1910. 1909

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Write it Right : a Little Blacklist of Literary Faults.


Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
Auckland : The Floating Press, 2014. 2014

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The writer's art


Kilpatrick, James Jackson, 1920-2010.
Kansas City : Andrews, McMeel & Parker, [1984] 1984

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You're saying it wrong : a pronunciation guide to the 150 most commonly mispronounced words and thei


Petras, Ross, author.
Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, [2016] 2016

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Bad English : a history of linguistic aggravation


Shea, Ammon.
[United States] : Tantor Media, Incorporated : Made available through hoopla, 2014. 2014

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Common errors in English usage


Brians, Paul (Paul Edward), 1942-
Wilsonville, OR : William, James & Co., 2003. 2003

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Harper dictionary of contemporary usage


Morris, William, 1913-1994.
New York : Harper & Row, [1985] 1985

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The New York times dictionary of misunderstood, misused, mispronounced words


Urdang, Laurence.
New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers : Distributed by Workman Pub. Co., 2002. 2002

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The New York times everyday reader's dictionary of misunderstood, misused, and mispronounced words


Urdang, Laurence.
New York : Times Books, [1985] 1985

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The wrong word dictionary : [2,000 most commonly confused words]


Dowling, Dave, 1951-
Edison, N. J. : Castle Books, 2008. 2008

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