Clean, Well-Lighted Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Avoiding the Most Common Errors in Grammar and...

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	Clean, Well-Lighted Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Avoiding the Most Common Errors in Grammar and Punctuation Janis Bell W. W. Norton, 2008 - 128 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Long overdue: a clear, good-humored discussion targeting only the most common errors in American sentences?nothing more.

This is a focused, respectful, entertaining guide to getting our sentences into good shape. After thirty-five years of teaching writing, Janis Bell knows which sentences those are and precisely what ails them. She describes grammar and usage problems in ways that make immediate sense. She explains precisely what our punctuation marks do and won't do. She also answers the very questions that readers are likely to have. Besides being extremely readable and relevant, each chapter offers a challenging quiz followed by answers that leave no doubt. This small, engaging book is for people who know what they want to write and who know English?all they need to hear is what Bell has to say about the gaffes that have crept into their sentences. Equally useful to a ninth-grader and a senior-level manager, Clean, Well-Lighted Sentences is a sweet and timely find.

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Do you find some details of English confusing?

If you care even a tiny bit about communicating with others of your species, or at least impressing them, GET THIS BOOK! Clean, Well-lighted Sentences is an easy-to-use look-up source that takes only a few seconds per error to use. In fact, I just used it to move "only" to the right of "takes," where it belongs. Look up your mistakes (the index is fantastic), read the lovely, funny explanations, make the corrections - and you're good to go without feeling like an idiot. I can't recommend the book highly enough - and because of its delightful tone, it actually makes a good Christmas or birthday gift.

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Clean Well-Lighted Sentences

I wish that I had had this book when I was still in the workforce. It makes writing and editing easy.

Fabulous book!

I'm no longer dependent on others to correct my punctuation. In fact, I'm ordering another copy right now.

Great, better than most.

Humor always adds something to that is as dry as punctuation.
Yet any writer needs a bit of help now and again.
I personally can't remember everything.

Good book.

A Good Simple Handbook

A small compact and quite elementary handbook for using the English language in our busy life. Many of the readers can probably find a few "tippings" quite helpful.

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