Strictly English: How to Write Correctly - Softcover

Heffer, Simon

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9781847946317: Strictly English: How to Write Correctly

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ISBN 10: 1847946313 ISBN 13: 9781847946317

Publisher: Random House Uk Ltd, 2035

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Simon Heffer's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the Telegraph about grammatical mistakes and stylistic slips have attracted a growing band of ardent fans over recent years. Now, he makes an impassioned case for correct English and offers practical advice on how to avoid the solecisms and mangled sentences that increasingly pepper everyday speech and writing. If you have ever been guilty of writing "different than," if you have ever tortured the language by saying "Thank you for asking my friend and I," if you have ever confused "imply" and "infer," then this book will prove essential reading. It will also reassuringly show you that accuracy and clarity need not be the preserve of an elite?they are within the grasp of anyone who is prepared to take the time to master a few simple rules.

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About the Author

Simon Heffer is the associate editor of the Daily Telegraph and has also worked for the Daily Mail. He is the author of Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle, Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England, and Vaughan Williams.

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