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Simon Heffer's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the Telegraph about grammatical mistakes and stylistic slips have attracted a growing band of ardent fans over recent years. Now, he makes an impassioned case for correct English and offers practical advice on how to avoid the solecisms and mangled sentences that increasingly pepper everyday speech and writing. If you have ever been guilty of writing "different than," if you have ever tortured the language by saying "Thank you for asking my friend and I," if you have ever confused "imply" and "infer," then this book will prove essential reading. It will also reassuringly show you that accuracy and clarity need not be the preserve of an elite—they are within the grasp of anyone who is prepared to take the time to master a few simple rules.
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Simon Heffer is the associate editor of the Daily Telegraph and has also worked for the Daily Mail. He is the author of Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle, Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England, and Vaughan Williams.
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"An impassioned case for correct English, full of practical advice" * Country Life * "Every one of us who gasps at the use of English in the papers each morning or harrumphs on turning on the radio will find much to applaud" * The Spectator * "I have spent several productive hours reading Strictly English" -- Jeffrey Archer * Daily Telegraph * "His evidently strong feelings about his subject, fluently expressed, make this book lively and engrossing" * Times Literary Supplement * "The Holy Grail of grammar ... It is a delight to read and learn from this book" * Field *
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- PublisherRandom House UK
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