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Dreyer's English: Good Advice for Good Writing
Benjamin Dreyer
Ages: 9+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Delacorte Press/Random House/Penguin Random House
ISBN: 978-0-593-17680-1
Keywords: punctuation, spelling, word choice, grammar
A longtime copywriter's entertaining and informative guide to rules and current practices. Includes an amusing, helpful chapter on "trimmables" -- redundancies such as "blend together," "closed fist,” and "fall down." Young readers edition of Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style.