The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is all it takes to master English usage! With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, this is one of the most trusted English language resources in existence.

FINALLY!! Forget the grammatical coin flips and that groping search for what might "look" or "sound" correct.

Contemporaries added to this edition include Beyoncé, Sandra Cisneros, James Comey, Drake, Louise Glück, LeBron James, Brett Kavanaugh, Lady Gaga, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Barack Obama, John Oliver, Nancy Pelosi, Vladimir Putin, Bernie Sanders ...

Developed with the help of instructors from two- and four-year schools, the sixth edition gives students quick access to the information they need to solve writing problems in any college course.

This book is based on my collection, over many years, of aphorisms and quotations, and it was a great pleasure to select a few of them to be included here.

... examples in chapter 2 were of ( sentential ) direct quotations , but the same is true of subsentential ( mixed ) quotations . 7. Another interesting piece of evidence that mixed quotations have the ordinary syntax and semantics of their ...

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APA and MLA citation styles have been updated throughout the text. To the student: This book was written to give you the knowledge and tools you can use to make your research-based writing more powerful and effective.

This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the ...