by Ernest Gowers, Sidney Greenbaum, Janet Whitcut · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140511994
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«The Complete Plain Words» is the guide to English usage by Ernest Gowers, Sidney Greenbaum and Janet Whitcut, in paperback (304 pages, Penguin UK, in English).
Classic reference guide for writing English with clarity, fluency and precision. It covers current vocabulary and style: jargon, clichés, superfluous words, basic grammar and punctuation rules, and word choice. It also addresses the influence of science, technology and American English.
Third revised edition of the work originally published in 1954. Ernest Gowers was an adviser to British commissions; Sidney Greenbaum, professor of English language, and Janet Whitcut, lexicographer.
Intended for writers, students and professionals who write in English and want to avoid style or grammar errors.
Sidney Greenbaum was a British scholar of the English language and of linguistics. He was Quain Professor of English language and literature at University College London from 1983 to 1990 and Director of the Survey of English Usage, 1983–96. With Randolph Quirk and others, he wrote A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. He also wrote the Oxford English Grammar.
