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Customer Reviews:Average Customer Rating: review Customer Rating:  Book arrived promptly as promised. Excellent condition. Excellent packaging. A thoroughly satisfactory transaction. Five stars to the vendor and my thanks! AN EXCELLENT PRIMER FOR ANYONE WANTING TO AVOID BASIC ERRORS IN ENGLISH AND TO BE ON TRACK FOR IMPROVING ONE'S ENGLISH Customer Rating:  A BOOK WELL WRITTEN BUSTING MANY A MYTH IN THE SPOKEN AND WRITTEN ENGLISH LANGUAGE. A MUST READ FOR ALL NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH. EVEN THOSE WHO SPEAK ENGLISH AS A FIRST LANGUAGE CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS BOOK IMMENSELY Insightful, Handy, and Concise Guide to avoiding Customer Rating: common grammatical and word meaning errors in English. Learn to use proper English. Useful for speakers as well as writers. A good example is the reflexive pronoun "myself". Do you know the proper usage of this word? What about when to use "may" versus "might"? If not, this book is a good start. I think most people could benefit from this book. The problem with errors in speech is that we unaware we are making them and often repeat them. Others, however, may pick up on our mistakes. Also, this book is concise and a fairly quick read. difficult to read Customer Rating: This does have great tips on grammar; however, some of the book is definitely outdated. Also, it seems to me that this type of book would be written primarily for those of us who aren't naturally adept in English usage -- if that is the case, I think the author should remember the KISS rule (Keep it simple, stupid) and avoid sentences like this one in chapter 13: "A false comparison is one wherein a comparative or a superlative degree construction is used without a clearly stated basis for the comparison..." . Who needs to muddle through sentences like that! Otherwise, though, this book can be very helpful. Very handy reference tool for writing Customer Rating: I've owned this book for about ten years and moved it with me whenever I get a new technical writing assignment. It has saved my writing hide with the subject matter experts numerous times! It shows the most common errors made in English usage in an easy-to-understand manner. I had trouble with misplaced modifiers and "like" as opposed to "such as" for years. This book helped me learn which way is correct usage! I like the straighforward and often humorous style. I'd love to see future editions. | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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