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The Oxford Guide to English Usage / compiled by E.S.C. Weiner and Andrew Delahunty. - Second Edition. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1993. - XI, 306 stron ; 20 cm.

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Weiner E.S.C. Opracowanie Delahunty Andrew Opracowanie

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Słownik angielski

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pronunciation English dictionary word formation grammar vocabulary

In The Oxford Guide to English Usage Andrew Delahunty and Edmund Weiner provide succinct, practical advice on problems that writers struggle with every day. Designed for daily use, this marvelous handbook is organized according to basic themes (Word Formation, Pronunciation, Vocabulary, Grammar, Punctuation) and written to address the actual needs of a typical writer. Under "Word Formation," for instance, the authors offer helpful guidance on suffixes (drop the final silent e when adding -able), those troublesome hyphens, variations between British and American spelling, and why the prefix in- appears in some words and un- in others. The book's approach is consistently straightforward and practical. On the split infinitive, for example, the authors write that it should generally be avoided, but not to the extent that awkward, contorted sentences are the result. And they have this to say about prepositions: "It is a natural feature of the English language that many sentences and clauses end with a preposition, and has been since the earliest times. The alleged rule that forbids [it] should be disregarded."

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