The Elements of Style (4th Edition)
by William Strunk, E. B. White
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Author: E. B. White, William StrunkForeword: Roger Angell
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-09-03
ISBN: 0205313426
Number of pages: 105
Publisher: Longman
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- ISBN13: 9780205313426
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Book Reviews of The Elements of Style (4th Edition)
Book Review: The Book You Can't Write Without
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is to writing and the English language in the same way that a golf swing is to hitting the golf ball. If you have to remember everything that you are supposed to do with your swing, you will become a golf statue for the entire (cross-out--entire) winter.
Reading "The Elements of Style" can also intimidate you from ever touching the keyboard. You might up end up staring at the screen feeling overwhelmed afraid that you are using, "the truth is...." when you know that you are giving yourself advance billing, which is bad, or is it--that is bad? Just writing this is making me feel nauseous. No, wait! I think it's (notice the apostraphe?) making me feel nauseated.
Why just yesterday I learned the differences between lesser and fewer, continuous and continual, affect and effect, and among and between. I learned that the difference among would have been incorrect. But the real winner was knowing that the present tense of lie is lay in the past tense even though laid sounds better, but laid is the past tense of lay, not lie or lain.
You will learn to avoid misplaced modifiers such as: "Mixing bowl set designed to please a cook with round bottom for efficient beating." You will also learn that "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens drops the indefinite article in the possessive: Dicken's "Tale of Two Cities." Learning where to put the quotation marks within a quotation and the punctuation at the end of a sentence will give you goosebumps.
This book is so helpful it should be on everyone's desk for the rest of his or her life (instead of their lives--plural and incorrect). I will make a concerted (no, scratch concerted--unnecessary word) effort to get my workplace to drop utilize, and/or, and semi-colons used as commas. Don't know if you should use whom or who? Remember that who goes with he, she, they, and whom goes with him, her, and them. All you have to do is answer the question: Whom/who did you call? I called he? No. I called him. So, whom is correct. Who called or whom called? Him called? No. He called; it's who. (Who is also on first)! Note: the punctuation goes outside the parenthesis.
The thrust (no, erase thrust) POINT of what I am saying (no, get rid of "of what I am saying") the point IS that this is the most valuable tool you can have, next to the dictionary, and it is also portable.
You will have FEWER problems with your English, if you buy this book.
Thanking you in advance for your anticipated purchase. (Of course, I wasn't supposed to write that)!
I promise Sts. Strunk and White to use fewer commas for the rest of my life. Kinda!
Summary of The Elements of Style (4th Edition)
You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered.This book's unique tone, wit and charm have conveyed the principles of English style to millions of readers. Use the fourth edition of "the little book" to make a big impact with writing.Words & Language Books
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