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Subject:Grammar Reference Works From:Morgan Johnson <MORGAN -dot- JOHNSON -at- CHASE -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:31:17 -0500
My favorites are:
The Elements of Grammar, Margaret Shertzer from the publisher of The
Elements of Style by Strunk and White, Collier Books.
The Transitive Vampire, A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager,
and the Doomed by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, author of The Well-Tempered
Sentence, Time Books
American English Usage, by Margaret Nicholson, based on Fowler's Modern
English Usage, Oxford University Press
A Civil Tongue by Edwin Newman, author of Will America Be the Death of
English?, Bobbs Merrill
