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Garner's Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner

Garner's Modern American Usage Bryan A. Garner ebook
Page: 933
ISBN: 0195161912, 9780195161915
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Format: pdf

Garner's Modern American Usage (3rd edition): “The conjunction because ordinarily begins a dependent clause that expresses reason, cause, or motive for whatever appears in the main clause. In this update of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage (1998), a contributor to The Chicago Manual of Style (2003) offers entries that discuss either a particular word or phrase, or larger issues of usage and style. Garner's Modern American Usage By Bryan A. Writer's Best Friend Pack consisting of Garner's Modern American Usage and the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus (9780195310603) Bryan A. Bryan Garner, in Garner's Modern American Usage, says that predominate is a needless variant of predominant; good usage requires predominate to be used only as a verb and predominant only as an adjective. Interestingly, contemporary usage has curtailed it further, into suffice to say, so that to some ears, the it sounds wrong. About "the undersigned" Garner writes in that book, "Even in law it's a silly way of avoiding the first person.". I don't know the book you're referring to, but it sounds like a good book, and worth reading. Your written English is better than the written English of MANY native English speakers. But today I call a witness: lawyer and lexicographer Bryan Garner, editor of Garner's Modern American Usage. Hi Claudio, welcome to englishforums! Since first appearing in 1998, Garner's Modern American Usage has established itself as the preeminent guide to the effective use of the English language.