How to Tell Fate from Destiny (ePub)
And Other Skillful Word Distinctions
(Sprache: Englisch)
"In this part-thesaurus, part-hilarious manual of style, Elster breaks down the most common mistakes of the English language."-Booklist
If you have trouble distinguishing the verbs imitate and emulate, the relative pronouns that and which, or the...
If you have trouble distinguishing the verbs imitate and emulate, the relative pronouns that and which, or the...
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"In this part-thesaurus, part-hilarious manual of style, Elster breaks down the most common mistakes of the English language."-Booklist
If you have trouble distinguishing the verbs imitate and emulate, the relative pronouns that and which, or the adjectives pliant, pliable, and supple, never fear-How to Tell Fate from Destiny is here to help! With more than 500 headwords, the book is replete with advice on how to differentiate commonly confused words and steer clear of verbal trouble. Whether you're a boomer, a Gen-Xer, or a millennial, if you peruse, browse, or even skim these spindrift pages you will (not shall) become versed in the fine art of differentiation. You will learn, for example,
"The author of this charming and useful book has made a career out of literary finesse. In his latest effort to 'clarify the mind and general discourse,' the 'professional distinctioneer' offers witty, wise advice on the right way to deploy some of the English language's trickiest words, from a and an to zero, zeros, zeroes."-Yale Alumni Magazine
If you have trouble distinguishing the verbs imitate and emulate, the relative pronouns that and which, or the adjectives pliant, pliable, and supple, never fear-How to Tell Fate from Destiny is here to help! With more than 500 headwords, the book is replete with advice on how to differentiate commonly confused words and steer clear of verbal trouble. Whether you're a boomer, a Gen-Xer, or a millennial, if you peruse, browse, or even skim these spindrift pages you will (not shall) become versed in the fine art of differentiation. You will learn, for example,
- how to tell whether you suffer from pride, vanity, or hubris
- how to tell whether you're contagious or infectious
- how to tell if you're pitiful or pitiable
- how to tell if you're self-centered or self-absorbed
- how to live an ethical life in a moral universe
"The author of this charming and useful book has made a career out of literary finesse. In his latest effort to 'clarify the mind and general discourse,' the 'professional distinctioneer' offers witty, wise advice on the right way to deploy some of the English language's trickiest words, from a and an to zero, zeros, zeroes."-Yale Alumni Magazine
Autoren-Porträt von Charles Harrington Elster
For more than thirty years, CHARLES HARRINGTON ELSTER has been writing and commenting about the English language for a general audience, publishing eleven books and more than three hundred articles on vocabulary, pronunciation, and usage.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Charles Harrington Elster
- 2020, 323 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- ISBN-10: 1328583236
- ISBN-13: 9781328583239
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.06.2020
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- Grösse: 5.67 MB
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