COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH AND HOW TO AVOID THEM

Alexander M. Witherspoon Common Errors in English COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH AND HOW TO AVOID THEM is a valuable guide for anyone who wants to improve his writing and speaking. It gives practical advice about choosing the most effective words to make one’s meaning clear and precise. It includes the correct pronunciations and spellings of hundreds of troublesome words. It explains common errors and presents nearly 200 pages of words and phrases which can be used for models. “A first-class soft-cover manual for the writer who is occasionally puzzled – as who isn’t? – about the precise meaning of a word. The book contains also a sensible guide to pronunciation.” –Author & Journalism ALEXANDER MACLAREN WITHERSPOON has taught at Yale University. He has been also Associate Professor of English and Fellow at Berkeley College. In addition to his academic career, the author is also distinguished as editor of Titus Andronicus in the Yale Shakespeare Series and the College Survey of English Literature. With Robert Tristam Coffin, he edited Seventeenth Century Prose and Poetry. He is one of the editors of the Masterwork Series and a member of the editorial board of Yale University Press.

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