GUIDE TO BETTER ENGLISH, THE

Elementary. A practical guide to improving your written English. This book provides an entertaining and useful guide that explains how to understand and improve your English. This guide is arranged as an encyclopedia of common errors -and how to avoid them. The entries include: - commonly confused words, such as insure and ensure - correct punctuation: when to use a semi-colon - grammar rules: dangling participles and the length of a sentence - style and usage for written English. A Guide to Better English includes examples of good and bad English from newspapers and quotations from radio, and also provides a dictionary of terms used to explain and define grammatical rules, such as 'idiom', 'participle' and 'pronoun'. This guide is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to improve their written English for work or study, examinations, reports, or correspondence.