Caroline Taggart, J. A. Wines
Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English
Price: £7.99
Imprint: O'Mara Books
Publication date: 01/09/2011
ISBN: 9781843176572
Subject: Non-Fiction
Binding: Paperback
Size: 198 x 129 mm
Extent: 192 pages
Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)
Imprint: O'Mara Books
Publication date: 09/10/2008
ISBN: 9781843173106
Subject: Non-Fiction
Binding: Hardback
Size: Other
Extent: 192 pages
Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)
Edition Status: Out of Print
Imprint: O'Mara Books
Publication date: 31/05/2010
ISBN: 9781843176268
Subject: Non-Fiction
Size: EPUB 2
Extent: 192 pages
Territorial Rights: World
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Enquire nowwill do for grammar what Eats Shoots and Leaves did for punctuation
The Times
Beautifully produced... a lot of fun
Tribune
If you belong to the generation who missed out on being taught grammar at school then out this book on top of your Christmas wish list. If you were taught, then put it on your wish list. Everyone should have this book, in fact... a great stocking filler for total grammar novices and experts alike
The Northern Echo
Sensible and concise... shows you how to make our wonderful, fluid language work for you rather than against you
The Good Book Guide
This book would be the perfect Christmas gift for anyone who is genuinely interested in why we write the way in which we do, or who likes doing what's right and proper
The Basingstoke Gazette
A useful book for anyone with an interest in the English language and an excellent stocking filler
The Wolverhampton Chronicle
A useable refresher... pedants will also find answers to those evergreen contentious teasers
The Bournemouth Daily Echo
It's a little gem that takes you on a tour of the English language
Knutsford Guardian
The popular grammar guide and Sunday Times bestseller - now available in paperback
An amusing foray into the complexities of the English language, this is a useful guide as well as a fantastic gift
Covers a wide range of common grammatical errors, including wrongly used prepositions, misplaced modifiers and confused participles
The hardback has been a bestseller since 2008 and has sold over 220,000 copies to date - part of the bestselling I Before E series which has sold over one million copies
Caroline Taggart worked in publishing as an editor of popular non-fiction for thirty years before being asked by Michael O'Mara Books to write I Used to Know That, which became a Sunday Times bestseller. Following that she was co-author of My Grammar and I (or should that be 'Me'?), and wrote a number of other books about words and English usage. She has appeared frequently on television and on national and regional radio, talking about language, grammar and whether or not Druids Cross should have an apostrophe. Her website is carolinetaggart.co.uk and you can follow her on Twitter @citaggart.
Jacquie Wines is a writer, compiler and editor. She has written several titles for Michael O’Mara Books including, with co-author Caroline Taggart, the best-selling My Grammar and I (or should that be ‘Me’?).