The Chicago guide to grammar, usage, and punctuation

Resource Information

The work The Chicago guide to grammar, usage, and punctuation represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Chicago guide to grammar, usage, and punctuation

Statement of responsibility

Bryan A. Garner

Creator

• Garner, Bryan A

Author

• Garner, Bryan A

Subject

• English language -- Grammar | Study and teaching (Higher)
• English language -- Grammar -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Handbooks and manuals
• English language -- Grammar
• English language -- Grammar | Study and teaching (Higher)
• Reference works
• Reference works
• REFERENCE -- Writing Skills

Genre

• Reference works
• Handbooks and manuals
• Handbooks, manuals, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Few people can write on the English language with the authority of Bryan A. Garner. The author of The Chicago Manual of Style's "Grammar and Usage" chapter, Garner explains the vagaries of English with absolute precision and utmost clarity. With The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation, he has written the definitive guide for writers who want their prose to be both memorable and correct. Throughout the book Garner describes standard literary English--the forms that mark writers and speakers as educated users of the language. He also offers historical context for understanding the development of these forms. The section on grammar explains how the canonical parts of speech came to be identified, while the section on syntax covers the nuances of sentence patterns as well as both traditional sentence diagramming and transformational grammar. The usage section provides an unprecedented trove of empirical evidence in the form of Google Ngrams, diagrams that illustrate the changing prevalence of specific terms over decades and even centuries of English literature. Garner also treats punctuation and word formation, and concludes the book with an exhaustive glossary of grammatical terms and a bibliography of suggested further reading and references"--Publisher

Member of

• Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing

Cataloging source

ICU/DLC

Dewey number

428.2

Index

index present

LC call number

PE1106

LC item number

.G35 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• handbooks

Series statement

Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing