MARC details
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02192nam a22002297a 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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| control field |
JGU |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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| control field |
20231123020024.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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231006b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780525533054 |
| Qualifying information |
pbk. |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
JGU |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Edition number |
23 |
| Classification number |
428.2 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
O’Conner, Patricia T., |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1644257 |
| Relator term |
author |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Woe is I : |
| Remainder of title |
the grammarphobe's guide to better English in plain English / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Patricia T. O’Conner. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
4th ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Riverhead Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2019. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxii, 298 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"In this expanded and updated edition of Woe Is I, former editor at The New York Times Book Review Patricia T. O'Conner unties the knottiest grammar tangles with the same insight and humor that have charmed and enlightened readers of previous editions for years. With fresh insights into the rights, wrongs, and maybes of English grammar and usage, O'Conner offers in Woe Is I down-to-earth explanations and plain-English solutions to the language mysteries that bedevil all of us. "Books about English grammar and usage are... never content with the status quo," O'Conner writes. "That's because English is not a stay-put language. It's always changing--expanding here, shrinking there, trying on new things, casting off old ones... Time doesn't stand still and neither does language." In this fourth edition, O'Conner explains how the usage of an array of words has evolved. For example, the once-shunned "they," "them," and "their" for an unknown somebody is now acceptable. And the battle between "who" and "whom" has just about been won, O'Conner says (hint: It wasn't by "whom"). Then there's the use of "taller than me" in simple comparisons, instead of the ramrod-stiff "taller than I." "May" and "might," "use to" and "used to," abbreviations that use periods and those that don't, and the evolving definition of "unique" are all explained here by O'Conner. The result is an engaging, up-to-date and jargon-free guide to every reader's questions about grammar, style, and usage for the 21st century."-- |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
English language--Grammar |
| 9 (RLIN) |
37396 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
English language--Usage |
| 9 (RLIN) |
118902 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha issues (borrowed), all copies |
1 |
