Guide to American English (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Guide to American English The second edition of this book was a very thorough revision of the first. In this third edition the changes in the text are not nearly so extensive. The chapter on the research paper has, I think, been considerably improved. Otherwise there are only a few minor changes and corrections. But if the author has done comparatively little for this edition, others have done much. The less expensive format has obvious advantages, especially for a textbook containing so many exercises, and the exercises themselves, by my colleague George Herman, are a very definite improvement. For each chapter there are two kinds: a number, most often twenty-five, of sentences or comparable items to be worked on, and two or three more general questions for class discussion or assigned writing. They are so skillfully devised to help students understand and practice what the text preaches that I am embarrassed when I compare them with my own earlier attempts. A writer who reissues a book with so little modification of his own is bound to examine very closely his reasons for so doing. Is he moved (or unmoved) by laziness, complacency, or pure ignorance of what has been taking place during the intervening time? I can speak to the first two possibilities quite simply. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.