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The American Heritage guide to contemporary usage and style

Houghton Mifflin Company. (Added Author). Credo Reference (Firm) (Added Author).

Summary: This book confronts traditional bugbears, such as disinterested and lay vs. lie, along with a variety of new challenges, such as seeking closure and begging the question. Commonly confused words, such as impinge and infringe, are teased apart. Notes on science terms explain the difference between popular and technical uses of words like relativity and exponential growth. Rulings are given for tough calls on grammatical controversies, redundancy, and parallelism, and sensible guidance is provided on punctuation, capitalization, and other conventions of style. Both readable and well researched, this book is an eminently sensible source of advice on how to use words effectively.

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ISBN: 0618604995 (print)
ISBN: 9780618604999 (print)
ISBN: 9781849721974 (online)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (1464 entries) : 108 images, digital files.
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electronic resource
Publisher: Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin, c2005

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Formatted Contents Note:	A-Z.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on title page of print version.