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From: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Availability of English Grammar, Dictionaries
Message-ID: <841@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 13:07:30 EST
Article-I.D.: cylixd.841
Posted: Mon Mar 10 13:07:30 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Mar-86 06:55:26 EST
References: <382@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Reply-To: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Organization: RCA Cylix Communications , Memphis, TN
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Summary: 

In article <382@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> norman@batcomputer.UUCP (Norman Ramsey) writes:
>Does anyone out there know of 
>
>1) A good English grammar. Neither my state education nor my BA saw
>   fit to teach me any English grammar; everything I know is from Latin.

If you can only get one book, get _Modern American Usage_ by Wilson
Follett (paperback, about $10).  If you can afford two, get that and
_The Elements of Style_ by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White 
(paperback, about $3).  I write for a living, and I find they cover
everything I ever want to know, and then some.  I'm sure you would find
your questions answered in these books.  (Follett, for example, spends
5 and a half pages on that and which.)


	regards,
		Charli Phillips