Usage & Grammar Guides

The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured o...

Oxford Modern English Grammar is Oxford's brand new and definitive guide to English grammar. This book has been written by a leading expert in the ...

If you can't tell a possessive pronoun from a correlative conjunction, confuse 'disinterested' and 'uninterested' and struggle with the subjunctive...

Written in an easy-to-read style, this book takes you through the basics of English grammar. It shows you how to improve your writing and speaking ...

Do you know how to use semicolons, where to put your apostrophes and when to use commas? Do you know the difference between affect and effect, if ...

This new edition of Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage marshals and analyses the modern legal vocabulary more thoroughly than any other contemporar...

Bullshit is everywhere. Some of it is just lazy, some is complete nonsense, and yet some is at least trying to communicate something, even if it fa...

Fascinating I loved this book; I really did David Crystal, Spectator A biography of a much misunders...