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A usage dictionary
- The Cambridge Guide to English Usage by Pam Peters is a usage dictionary, giving an up-to-date account of the debatable issues of English usage and written style. It is based on extensive, up-to-date corpus data rather than on the author's personal intuition or prejudice, and differentiates among US, UK, Canadian and Australian usages.
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The Cambridge Guide to English Usage is an A–Z reference book, giving an up-to-date account of the debatable issues of English usage and written style.
The book comprises more than 4000 points of word meaning, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and larger issues of inclusive language, and effective writing and argument. It also provides guidance on grammatical terminology, and covers topics in electronic communication and the internet.
- Pam Peters
- 2004
Pam Peters, Macquarie University, Sydney. Book: The Cambridge Guide to English Usage. Published online: 26 July 2017. Print publication: 29 April 2004, pp 593-593. Chapter.
Apr 29, 2004 · The Cambridge Guide to English Usage is an A-Z reference book, giving an up-to-date account of the debatable issues of English usage and written style. Its advice draws on a wealth of...
- Pam Peters
- Cambridge University Press, 2004
- illustrated, reprint
- The Cambridge Guide to English Usage
The Cambridge Guide to English Usage by Pam Peters is a usage dictionary, giving an up-to-date account of the debatable issues of English usage and written style. It is based on extensive, up-to-date corpus data rather than on the author's personal intuition or prejudice, and differentiates among US, UK, Canadian and Australian usages.
It covers the basics of English grammar, including parts of speech, sentence structure, and grammar rules such as syntax, morphology, and punctuation. Additionally, it explores common grammar terms, such as subject-verb agreement, tense, aspect, voice, mood, case, and gender.
English the words historic, historical and historian are the most frequent of these exceptional cases, but the tendency goes further in Britain, by the evidence of matching databases (LOB and Brown corpora). They show that British writers use an to preface adjectives such as habitual, hereditary, heroic, horrific, hypothetical, hysterical (and ...
