Details a variety of common grammatical mistakes and discusses why they are made. Offers tips on how to avoid making these mistakes and contains hands-on activities throughout. Includes color photographs.

"An unconventional guide to the English language drawn from the cross-country adventures of an itinerant grammarian"-- When Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a Grammar Table sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Jovin soon took it on the road, traveling across the US to answer questions from anyone who uses words in this world. Here she...

Presents common English language mistakes, covering such items as the placement of commas between adjectives, misusing "I" and "me", and the correct use of "that" and "which."

"The author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language "mistakes" and how they came to be accepted as correct-or not. English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together from a wide variety of sources and syntaxes, and changing over time with popular usage. Many of the words and usages we embrace as standard and correct today were at first considered slang, impolite, or just plain wrong. Whether you consider yourself a stickler,...

A style manual for English speakers on both sides of the Atlantic identifies the common mistakes and correct usage of everything from dangling participles to transitive verbs.