McCarthy's Field Guide to Grammar: Natural English Usage and Style

by Michael McCarthy

Book Overview

You ain't gonna like it: bad grammar's not so bad. - The Times Remember all those grammar rules from school? No? Most of us don't. Mike McCarthy, renowned corpus linguist and co-author of the 900-page Cambridge Grammar of English answers the awkward questions that regularly bother us about English grammar. In this helpful A-Z field guide, McCarthy tells us what the conventional rules are as well as shows us what people are writing or saying now and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529393515
• ISBN13: 9781529393514
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Chambers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.9"