Pinckert's Practical Grammar: A Lively, Unintimidating Guide to Usage, Punctuation and Style
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Language: English
Published by Writer s Digest Books, 1986
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- Title
- Pinckert's Practical Grammar: A Lively, Unintimidating Guide to Usage, Punctuation and Style
- Author
- Pinckert Robert
- Publisher
- Writer s Digest Books
- Publication year
- 1986
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0898792118
- ISBN 13
- 9780898792119
Takes a fresh look at the English language, explains the differences between formal and informal usage, and covers diction, punctuation, sentence structure, rhetoric, and style
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In eight pithy "lessons" the author playfully assails such topics as the parts of speech, composition, and arguing a point of view. A basic assumption is that use of good English is a sort of one-upmanship or competitive game. Not really "practical," it suffers from an overload of curt, peremptory sentences that make it a labor to follow. It offers too little detail and exposition for an adequate text or treatise. Still, the many clever, thought-provoking observations and pronouncements might please language-minded readers who enjoyed books like Karen Gordon's The Transitive Vampire ( LJ 1/84) or Stephen White's The Written Word ( LJ 6/16/84). Not a necessary purchase. William A. Donovan, Chicago P.L.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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