The Little Oxford Guide to English Usage

Based on the highly successful second edition of the Oxford Guide to English Usage, this new Little Oxford Guide to English Usage offers the same valued information in a handy, compact format. Here is an essential guide to good English that takes the user clearly and easily through each aspect of writing and speaking English, with copious examples drawn from the works of the best writers. Have you ever had doubts about when to hyphenate two words? Confused over whether you should disassociate or dissociate yourself from something? Do you know when to spell doggie as doggy? Is it really a rule that a preposition should never fall at the end of a sentence? The Little Oxford Guide to English Usage answers these questions and more, and it also includes advice on spelling, punctuation, pronunciation, and difficult and misused words. Designed for daily use, this marvelous handbook is organized according to basic themes (Word Formation, Pronunciation, Vocabulary, Grammar) and written to address the actual needs of a typical writer. Now there's a single, convenient, and eminently portable source you can turn to with all your questions about how to speak and write more clearly.Delahunty, Andrew is the author of 'The Little Oxford Guide to English Usage', published 1995 under ISBN 9780198613015 and ISBN 0198613016.