100 conversations about the English language
This is a pencil-sharp book about English for anyone who ever needs to write. In an easy-to-read style, it offers accessible and constructive advice to help you improve your English skills. It targets common pitfalls and those troublesome areas of English usage that affect everyone, no matter what their level of competence. It exposes several language myths and is bursting with 1500 examples of both right and wrong usage.
The Joy of English cuts to the heart of what readers want: help with their English. Its 100 short chapters are written in plain English and provide answers to the questions that we are too afraid to ask – amateurs and professionals alike.
This book teaches you about:
• who versus whom
• practice versus practise
• less versus fewer
• further versus farther
• in contrast to versus by contrast
• Why it is OK to start sentences with And or But.
• learned versus learnt
• The most commonly misspelt words
• imply versus infer
• Why we overuse the word very
• Why there is nothing wrong with split infinitives
• Differences between British and American English
• while versus whilst
• -ise versus -ize spellings
• and plenty more!
We live in the information age. Never in history has the need to communicate been so great. We are writing, blogging and speaking more than ever before. The Joy of English is the prefect companion for the office, business, study or at home.
Everyone can improve their language skills, and enjoy their use of English as never before. The author boldly promises to change your English for ever, and put you on the path to new levels of competence and confidence.
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