Dreyer, B: Dreyer's English (Adapted for Young Readers)
(Sprache: Englisch)
Adapted from the New York Times bestseller by Random House's longtime copy chief, this informative and witty guide to writing and grammar, written especially for a younger audience, entertains as well as instructs.
Full of advice, insider wisdom, and...
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Adapted from the New York Times bestseller by Random House's longtime copy chief, this informative and witty guide to writing and grammar, written especially for a younger audience, entertains as well as instructs.Full of advice, insider wisdom, and fascinating facts, this book will prove to be invaluable to anyone who wants to be confident in their writing skills, or anyone who enjoys the power of language. Explored throughout are the mysteries of using punctuation, word choice decisions, and more, presented in a clear, concise and accessible manner made fun!
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silent--you will at the end of that week be a considerably better writer than you were at the beginning. The Wan Intensifiers add nothing. Avoid them.I wouldn t necessarily call that a rule of good writing; writing isn t always about rules. That said, I have nothing against rules. They re indispensable when playing Monopoly or chess, and their observance can go a long way toward improving a ride on the subway. The rule of law? Big fan.The English language, though, is not so easily ruled and regulated. It developed without codification, sucking up new constructions and vocabulary every time some foreigner set foot on the British Isles--to say nothing of the mischief we Americans have wreaked on it these last few centuries--and continues to evolve anarchically. It has, to my great dismay, no enforceable laws, much less someone to enforce the laws it doesn t have.Certain prose rules are essentially inarguable--that a sentence s subject and its verb should agree in number, for instancpronoun, or in some other way engaged in inadvertent misdirection.As much as I like a good rule, I m an enthusiastic subscriber to the notion of rules are meant to be broken --once you ve learned them, I hasten to add.Right now, let s attend to a few of what I think of as the Great Nonrules of the English Language. You ve encountered all of these; you ve probably been taught them in school. I d like you to free yourself of them. They re not helping you; all they re doing is clogging your
Autoren-Porträt von Benjamin Dreyer
Benjamin Dreyer is vice president, executive managing editor and copy chief, of Random House. He began his publishing career as a freelance proofreader and copy editor, joining Random House as a production editor in 1993. He has copyedited books by authors including E. L. Doctorow, David Ebershoff, Frank Rich, and Elizabeth Strout, as well as Let Me Tell You, a volume of previously uncollected work by Shirley Jackson. A graduate of Northwestern University, he lives in New York City. Visit him online at BenjaminDreyer.com and follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @BCDreyer.
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- Autor: Benjamin Dreyer
- International, 304 Seiten, Maße: 14,2 x 21,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Delacorte Press
- ISBN-10: 0593377125
- ISBN-13: 9780593377123
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.02.2021
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