English for language snobs
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Ваша оценкаMary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice.
Between You & Me features Norris's laugh-out-loud descriptions of some of the most common and vexing problems in spelling, punctuation, and usage—comma faults, danglers, "who" vs. "whom," "that...
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sarcastronaut10 декабря 2016 г.Has the casual use of profanity in English reached a high tide? That’s a rhetorical question, but I’m going to answer it anyway: Fuck yeah.
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“Whom” may indeed be on the way out, but so is Venice, and we still like to go there.
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The most important verb is the verb “to be” in all its glory: am, are, is, was, were, will be, has been. Grammarians know it as the copulative verb. (Many grammarians prefer “linking verb,” but I have to say that the term “copulative verb” impressed me when I heard it for the first time, in a linguistics course during my junior year of college. It was my first inkling that English grammar could be interesting.)
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