Pinckert's Practical Grammar: A Lively, Unintimidating Guide to Usage, Punctuation and Style - Softcover

Pinckert, Robert C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898794412 ISBN 13: 9780898794410

Publisher: Writers Digest Books, 1991

Synopsis

Takes a fresh look at the English language, explains the differences between formal and informal usage, and covers diction, punctuation, sentence structure, rhetoric, and style

About this title

From Library Journal:

In eight pithy "lessons" the author playfully assails such topics as the parts of speech, composition, and arguing a point of view. A basic assumption is that use of good English is a sort of one-upmanship or competitive game. Not really "practical," it suffers from an overload of curt, peremptory sentences that make it a labor to follow. It offers too little detail and exposition for an adequate text or treatise. Still, the many clever, thought-provoking observations and pronouncements might please language-minded readers who enjoyed books like Karen Gordon's The Transitive Vampire ( LJ 1/84) or Stephen White's The Written Word ( LJ 6/16/84). Not a necessary purchase. William A. Donovan, Chicago P.L.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Writers Digest Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0898794412
• ISBN 13: 9780898794410
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232