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Provides guidance on English usage, grammar, and style. Entries include examples and quotations that show correct and incorrect usage plus relative effectiveness of different expressions in context.
Provides guidance of usage of modern American English. Features real examples, good and bad, from sources such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek.
Provides grammatical terms and their meanings. Includes current terms of grammar and older, traditional names, controversial new coinages, and items from the study of other languages.
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