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| Clean, Well-Lighted Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Avoiding the Most Common Errors in Grammar and Punctuation
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Author: Janis Bell
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date: 2008-09-02
ISBN-10: 0393067718
ISBN-13: 9780393067712
List Price: $21.95
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Long overdue: a clear, good-humored discussion targeting only the most common errors in American sentences—nothing more.
This is a focused, respectful, entertaining guide to getting our sentences into good shape. After thirty-five years of teaching writing, Janis Bell knows which sentences those are and precisely what ails them. She describes grammar and usage problems in ways that make immediate sense. She explains precisely what our punctuation marks do and won't do. She also answers the very questions that readers are likely to have. Besides being extremely readable and relevant, each chapter offers a challenging quiz followed by answers that leave no doubt. This small, engaging book is for people who know what they want to write and who know English—all they need to hear is what Bell has to say about the gaffes that have crept into their sentences. Equally useful to a ninth-grader and a senior-level manager, Clean, Well-Lighted Sentences is a sweet and timely find.
A "lighted" sentence?
| Customer Rating:  | The past tense of "to light" is "lit", otherwise it jars the ear as much as "bringed" or "bited" would do. Has American English really declined to that level? "I lighted the fire" sounds like English was not the speaker's mother tongue.
And when I see the author's devotees writing sentences like "I took Janis' class", using a mangled pseudo-possessive form which makes no logical sense at all, I think something has gone horribly wrong. Janis'? How are you supposed to pronounce that?
By the way, for anyone who read what I just wrote and who thinks the commas after "lit" and "class" should have been tucked INSIDE the quotation marks, ask yourself if it really makes sense for the punctuation for the sentence to be treated as part of a quote when it is NOT. |
Very good and an easy read
| Customer Rating: | | This is a nice book, pleasure reading and learning something that I can use on almost a daily basis. I haven't been in an English class for A LONG TIME but I need to write for work every day. This book has truly helped me to write more clearly and stop making some of the common mistakes a lot of us make and don't even realize we're making. I'm glad I bought it, it has become my desk reference also. |
Clean Well-Lighted Sentences
| Customer Rating: | | I wish that I had had this book when I was still in the workforce. It makes writing and editing easy. |
A Good Simple Handbook
| Customer Rating: | | A small compact and quite elementary handbook for using the English language in our busy life. Many of the readers can probably find a few "tippings" quite helpful. |
Great, better than most.
| Customer Rating: | Humor always adds something to that is as dry as punctuation.
Yet any writer needs a bit of help now and again.
I personally can't remember everything.
Good book. |
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