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The Complete Plain Words: A Guide and Reference Book to the Use of English for Official and Other Purposes

By Sir Ernest Gowers

Book information

Publisher
Her Majesty’s Stationery Office
Year
1954
ISBN
11-700340-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10039463 bytes)
Edition
5th impression with amendments, 1958
Pages
221\221
Topic
Linguistics\\Foreign: English
Time added
2019-03-19 01:19:40
acrobaticsadjectiveadverbcandourcliche’communicationconjugationdeclensionEnglishepigramFowlerGrammarGravesGrimmHMSOidiomjargonJespersenLatinle mot justelegal languagelexiconMenckenmetaphormoodNecromancyneologismnounofficialeseparticipleprepositionpronounPropagandapunctuationQuiller-CouchsolecismspellingSyntaxVerbVocabularyvoiceword orderwriting

Description

Dustwrapper ......Page 1 Backstrip ......Page 2 Flyleaf-front ......Page 3 Title Page ......Page 5 Printer's imprint ......Page 6 Preface ......Page 7 CONTENTS ......Page 9 1. Prologue ......Page 11 2. A Digression on Legal English ......Page 18 3. The Elements ......Page 24 4. Correctness ......Page 40 5. The Choice of Words (1) ......Page 57 6. The Choice of Words (2) ......Page 68 7. The Choice of Words (3) ......Page 85 8. The Choice of Words (4) ......Page 108 9. The Handling of Words ......Page 129 10. Punctuation ......Page 186 11. Epilogue ......Page 206 Bibliography ......Page 210 Index ......Page 213 Flyleaf-rear ......Page 221

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