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Accidence Will Happen: A Recovering Pedant's Guide to English Language and Style | Oliver Kamm

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Are standards of English alright or should that be all right?To knowingly split an infinitive or not to?And what about ending a sentence with a preposition, or for that matter beginning one with "and"? We learn language by instinct, but good English, the pedants tell us, requires rules. Yet, as Oliver Kamm cleverly demonstrates in this new book, many of the purists' prohibitions are bogus and can be cheerfully disregarded.Accidence Will Happenis an authoritative and deeply reassuring guide to grammar, style, and the linguistic conundrums we all face. "

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Accidence Will Happen: A Recovering Pedant's Guide to English Language and Style | Oliver Kamm

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I've never read any kind of English style guide before, and I'm so glad I made the random decision to pick this up from the library! It was fascinating to read, and very reassuring and informative. I found the idea that any English is valid very refreshing.

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