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What book will make my grammar flawless once and for all?

>> No.12195593

>>12195431
Based.
Why is this not a sticky yet?

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>>12195431

>> No.12195831

>>12195603
Does this read like an academic textbook?

>> No.12195835

>>12195431
The Trivium by Sister Miriam Joseph.
It should be required reading for this board tbqhwymfwgip.

>> No.12195872

>>12195835
That book is so dry to read, you need to drink water every now and then

>> No.12196100

Bump

>> No.12196112

>>12195831
Not exactly, no, but you shouldn't expect any grammar book to be all that exciting. Garner's Modern English Usage is the best I've been able to find.

>> No.12196119

>>12196112
Are you DFW?

>> No.12196126

My diary, desu.

>> No.12196129

>>12196119
That depends on why you're asking.

>> No.12196132

I stopped caring about grammar in grade school.
phoneposting is the new vernacular, deal with it scrubs

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Anyone got review on Elements of Style?

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>>12195431

>> No.12196304

>>12196240
It was used as the textbook in a class of mine this semester. Quite good, simple to understand, clear, and applies its concepts well. Probably better than any other book itt.

>> No.12196542

>>12196304
No, it's too brief and too idiosyncratic. Garner's Modern English Usage is much better.

>> No.12196552

never even read garner's and i can tell you strunk and white's is wholly unsatisfying. an embarrassing reduction sharked out to colleges for students who either don't care or don't know any better.

>> No.12196884

>>12195431
What reading shall create mine own grammer such that it hasn't narry a flaw now and thence for the rest of time?

Fixed

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>>12195603
I swear I'm going to kill someone for this shit
Why is the kindle version still so expensive

>> No.12196958

A thesaurus.

>> No.12196987

>>12196954
Just pirate it you troglodyte.

>> No.12197330

>>12196552
Did you say not to read garner's or that was fyi?

>> No.12197355

>>12195872
you need to do that regardless

>> No.12197387

>>12197330
*i've never even read Garner's

sorry. bad internet habits.

>> No.12197420

>>12197387
Maybe you should

>> No.12197429

>>12197420
if you think i write like this on the regular without punctuation and editing maybe you should rethink a bitch

>> No.12197439

>>12195431
Panini's astadyayi

>> No.12197444

>>12195431
if your grammer isn't innately and immediately perfect, you will never make it

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>>12196954
>buying e-books
For what purpose?

>> No.12197856

Derrida's On Grammatology

>> No.12197892

>>12195431
Don't listen to these plebs: Read "The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language"
It's descriptive and comprehensive unlike the english usage guides (which are prescriptive)

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>>12197892
>It's on libgen
god bless

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>>12198075
Got a link, lad?

>> No.12199404

bump

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>>12196240
>yo' was goin on jewtube n in dis video we gon review the elements of style.
this book concentrates on specific questions of usage—and the cultivation of good writing—with the recommendation "Make every word tell"; hence the 17th principle of composition is the simple instruction: "Omit needless words." and honesty I think this is a very good book that will help you omit needless words but again that is my opinion. what do you guys think? let me know in the comments below and thank you so much for supporting on patreon and dont forget to smash that like button and hit the bell icon alright guys catch you tomorrow for more daily reviews, the epic reviewer out!!!!

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>>12196954
This is what you get for being worst-format-tier nigger.
Shell out the big bucks for the 10"+ Onyx Boox models that can actually handle and display PDFs. You can find PDFs of almost any book, and it's the superior format because it's literally an exact copy of the real deal. You even get real life page numbers. I bet if I bought that e-pub, I could find errors throughout the thing, it's usually a copy+paste from an OCR. I doubt they took any care or effort in the presentation either. That's the trade off if you want big giant grandma sized text. I for one don't mind PDFs on a large device because it's literally the same size as it would appear on paper.
PDF > mobi or epub
Only reason people are opposed is because they are ereaderlets with sub 10" devices that can't display PDFs natively without at the very least needing some magnification. No dumbass, that's cause you bought a cheap piece of shit meant for casually reading john grisham novels where it doesn't matter if a few paragraphs are missing here and there.

>> No.12201880

>>12196282
ookko nää isolta kirkolta

>> No.12202147

>>12195431
The one about the rude frog.