A Guide to Good English (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Guide to Good English<br><br>This book is offered with the sympathy of a fellow-craftsman to all who seek self-expression through words. It is based on the experience of a number of years spent in handling the manuscript that comes into the office of the newspaper, the magazine, the book publisher, and that which is written in college classes of all sorts, from those composed of Freshmen to those composed of more or less practised writers and teachers who seek from the college special help of some kind. On the basis of such experience I have selected the material for this book. In it I have tried to give answers to the questions which arise oftenest. It is not intended to be a compendium of all knowledge relating to our work, but merely a useful arrangement of the principles, and a few rules, which we must use every day, and which we must have either at our fingers ends or at our elbows. In general I have presented principles as well as rules, and have tried to steer as free a course as one can between dogmatism and prolixity. Sometimes, however, to avoid discussion which would be out of place in a mere handbook, I have been content to point a safe path without explanation.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.