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Garner's Modern English Usage

... 5: Fully accepted. LANGUAGE-CHANGE INDEX (For the full key, see front matter pp. the ... eldritch misspelled ✳eldrich: Stage 1 Current ratio in print (eldritch vs ... Knight gave a moving elegy [read eulogy] for his old coach and friend ...

Garner's Modern American Usage

... phrase the writer and comedian is an appositive to Mel Brooks; it is set off ... vs. a brick road vs. the yellow brick road). aspect. A grammatical form or ... clause. A grammatical unit that contains a subject, a finite verb, and any ...

Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage

... abjurer and adjurer . abjurer ; * abjuror . The first spelling is preferred . See -ER ( A ) . able . For the meaning ... 5 synonymous with miscarriage . But today it more. • " We are left with the abiding belief that Hagy's appeal against ...

Garner on Language and Writing

... Art of Dramatic Writing , The ( Egri ) , 727 Art of Fiction , The ( Gardner ) , 717 Art of Fiction , The ( C. Hamilton ) , 724 Art of Fiction , The ( Lodge ) , 517 , 717 Art of Literary Research , The ( Altick ) , 723 Art of Making ...

A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage

... se ; malum prohibitum . Pl . mala in se and mala prohibita . These LATINISMS are frequently used by common - law writers , and knowing the distinction between them helps one understand the relation between morality and law . Malum in se ...

Harvard Business Review Guides Ultimate Boxed Set (16 Books)

... Business School Publishing, 60 Harvard Way, Boston, Massachusetts 02163. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Garner, Bryan A. HBR guide to better business writing / Bryan A. Garner. p. cm. — (Harvard business review guides) ...

HBR Guide to Better Business Writing (HBR Guide Series)

This book will help you: Push past writer's block Grab--and keep--readers' attention Earn credibility with tough audiences Trim the fat from your writing Strike the right tone Brush up on grammar, punctuation, and usage Arm yourself with ...

HBR Guides to Being an Effective Manager Collection (5 Books) (HBR Guide Series)

This specially priced collection includes books from the HBR Guide series on the topics of Getting the Right Work Done, Better Business Writing, Persuasive Presentations, Making Every Meeting Matter, and Project Management.

Successful Writing and Speaking: The Communication Collection (9 Books)

This Harvard Business Review digital collection will give you the confidence and tools you need to write and speak successfully.

The Winning Brief: 100 Tips for Persuasive Briefing in Trial and Appellate Courts

... parallel construction is a phrase or clause that grammatically mirrors ... breaks up ideas illogically , disrupting both the grammatical and the ... rule appears both 220 THE WINNING BRIEF : TIP 41.

Garner's Modern English Usage

... abjurer; abjuror. e -er spelling, which has always predominated, is preferred. See - (). Current ratio: 5:1 -. A. Choice of -able or -ible. Many adjectives have competing forms ending in -able and -ible. Some of these have undergone in ...

The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style

... bum rap . It's occasionally confused with the word wrap ( = a ma- terial for covering something ) -e.g .: " Even though Edgar Allan Poe gets a bum wrap [ read rap ] for just dying here , ' his genealogy is deeply rooted in this city's ...

Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text with Exercises

In this new edition, Garner preserves the successful structure of the original while adjusting the content to make it even more classroom-friendly.

Legal Writing in Plain English, Third Edition: A Text with Exercises

... Legal Writing: 15 Topics for Advanced Legal Writers. Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein, 2005. Schiess, Wayne. Writing for the Legal Audience. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic, 2003. Volokh, Eugene. Academic Legal Writing: Law Review ...

The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation

... sentence. See sentence. interrupter. Any parenthetical matter, such as an aside, that breaks one main thought of the sentence {we listened closely to the (ahem) maestro} {Bill, however, had a different view} {in Lamie v. United States ...

Black's Law Dictionary

Features more than ten thousand legal terms and includes a dictionary guide and the complete United States Constitution.

Black's Law Dictionary

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that define over ten thousand legal terms, and includes pronunciation guides, style and usage tags, cross-references, and the text of the U.S. Constitution.

Black's Law Dictionary

For more than a century, Black's Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for the language of law. This edition contains more than 50,000 terms, including more than 7,500 terms new to this edition.

A Handbook of Basic Law Terms

Derived from the world's most widely cited and best-selling legal reference, Black's Law Dictionary, this US title includes more than 1,000 key words and phrases with accurate and clear definitions.

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