Woe is I

by O'Conner, Patricia T.

• ISBN13: 9781573223317
• ISBN10: 157322331X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780525533061
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780525533054, 9781594488900
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-27
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
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Summary

The witty bestseller that untangled the knottiest problems in the English language is back-in a revised, expanded third edition that untangles more knots than ever.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
Woe Is I
Therapy for Pronoun Anxiety	p. 1
Plurals Before Swine
Blunders with Numbers	p. 17
Yours Truly
The Possessives and the Possessed	p. 35
They Beg to Disagree
Putting Verbs in their Place	p. 47
Verbal Abuse
Words on the Endangered List	p. 79
Spellbound
How to be Letter Perfect	p. 129
So to Speak
Talking Points on Pronunciation	p. 149
Comma Sutra
The Joy of Punctuation	p. 163
The Compleat Dangler
A Fish out of Water	p. 189
Death Sentence
Do Clichés Deserve to Die?	p. 197
The Living Dead
Let Bygone Rules be Gone	p. 209
Saying is Believing
How to Write what you Mean	p. 223
Glossary	p. 237
Bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 255
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