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“If you’re going to have just one book on a desert island and you are a writer, I would say this is the book to have…every single person who writes in English, or at least American English, should be required to own this book and read it, and demonstrate that they’ve read it. It should be like getting a driver’s license. Before you can post a blog, before you can write an email, you need to have a writer’s license! And this is the test. This book is the test.” Read more...
The Best Grammar and Punctuation Books
Mark Nichol, Linguist
Our most recommended books
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Garner's Modern English Usage (5th edition)
by Bryan A. Garner -
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester -
A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
by Julie Coleman -
The Study of Language in England, 1780-1860
by Hans Aarsleff -
The Corner
by David Simon and Edward Burns -
The Scholar's Daughter
by Beatrice Harraden