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The guide to real-life writing, grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
A practical guide for the grammatically challenged.
This is a fun-damental guide to the craft and art of punctuating precisely and profoundly.
In this guide to real-life writing, grammar, spelling, and punctuation, you’ll learn to write right. Joining forces are Richard Lederer, a former Usage Editor of the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, and Richard Dowis, former Publications Director for Coca-Cola.
From Simon & Schuster, The Write Way is the S.P.E.L.L. (Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature) guide to real-life writing.
Anyone who’s tackled tricky grammar, slippery syntax, pesky punctuation, head-scratching spelling, and sneaky jargon knows that good writing is never easy. In this ingenious guide, enjoy the wit of two English language mavens as they entertain while answering all your perplexing questions about how to write clearly, persuasively, and accurately.
This practical guide for the grammatically challenged gives the lowdown on all the major issues of grammar and usage. Joining forces are Richard Lederer, a former Usage Editor of the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, and Richard Dowis, former Publications Director for Coca-Cola.
For years Richard Lederer has enthralled fans of the English language with his keen insights, commonsense advice, and witty presentation. Now
The authors clear up once and for all the confusion between lay and lie and put to rest some common myths about language. The book’s finale is a ten-minute writing lesson from which everyone, from rank amateur to seasoned pro, can benefit. These and dozens of other features make this book pure pleasure for language buffs, writers, and teachers. Sleeping Dogs Don’t Lay is useful and authoritative as well as fun to read, with humorous touches often popping up where least expected and most needed.
On your marks! This is a fun-damental guide to the craft and art of punctuating precisely and profoundly. With high humor, Comma Sense reveals the essential rules for using commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, and all the other crucial squiggles that enhance our writing. Co-author Richard Lederer is a former Usage Editor of the Random House Dictionary of the English Language.
Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, a dash is something you make for the bathroom, and a colon and semicolon are large and small intestines? If so, language humorists Richard Lederer and John Shore (with the sprightly aid of illustrator Jim McLean), have written the perfect book to help make your written words perfectly precise and punctuationally profound.
Don’t expect Comma Sense to be a dry, academic tome. On the contrary, the authors show how each mark of punctuation―no matter how seemingly arcane―can be effortlessly associated with a great American icon: the underrated yet powerful period with Seabiscuit; the jazzy semicolon with Duke Ellington; even the rebel apostrophe with famed outlaw Jesse James. But this book is way more than a flight of whimsy. When you’ve finished Comma Sense, you’ll not only have mastered everything you need to know about punctuation through Lederer and Shore’s simple, clear, and right-on-the-mark rules, you’ll have had fun doing so. When you’re done laughing and learning, you’ll be a veritable punctuation whiz, ready to make your marks accurately, sensitively, and effectively.
Welcome to the website woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores devour words. If you are heels over head (as well as head over heels) in love with words, tarry here a while to graze or, perhaps, feast on the English language. Ours is the only language in which you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway and your nose can run and your feet can smell.
