His first book was a guide to English usage, The Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words (1983).
This delightful, bittersweet book is a guide to the usage basics, a tribute to friendship, and an argument for paying attention to every word and person we can.
Rob Colter, Grammar to Go: The Portable A-Zed Guide to Canadian Usage.
He bought for me a copy of Fowler's Guide to Modern English Usage and he told me that I should read it from beginning to end.
(A stylebook is the definitive guide to usage, relied upon by writers and editors, for the purpose of consistency).
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Business Style and Usage, edited by Paul R. Martin W.S.J. Bookss, $30), has unique entries like triple witching, green-shoe clause and dragon bonds.
Charles Haynes, director of the Religious Freedom Education Project at Newseum in Washington, DC, has drafted several guides to usage of the Bible in public schools.
The definitive guide to proper punctuation, grammar and usage, this little gem should be mandatory reading for every American.
It's a handy guide to the big 12, including: the full stop, comma, apostrophe, semicolon, exclamation mark, dash, brackets, hyphen, ellipsis, colon, question mark and quotation mark.
Close punctuation is not meant as a guide to stops and starts, like Dickens's and Melville's commas.
