The Joy of English: the blurb*
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
Questions such as:
• who versus whom
• learned versus learnt
• less versus fewer
• imply versus infer
• as versus because
• practice versus practise
• in contrast to versus by contrast
• provided versus providing
• further versus farther
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.
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.
* In British English, a blurb refers to the sales text on the outside back cover of a book. In US English, a blurb is short quotes praising a book or author, which usually run for page after page on the opening pages. This blurb is what features on the back of this book – obviously.
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