The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) By Bryan A. Garner

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The authoritative guide to using the English language effectively, from “the greatest writer on grammar and usage that this country has ever produced” (David Yerkes, Columbia University). The author of The Chicago Manual of Style’s popular “Grammar and Usage” chapter, Bryan A. Garner is renowned for explaining the vagaries of English with absolute precision and utmost clarity. With The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation, he has written the definitive guide for writers who want their prose to be both memorable and correct. Garner describes standard literary English—the forms that mark writers and speakers as educated users of the language. He also offers historical context for understanding the development of these forms. The section on grammar explains how the canonical parts of speech came to be identified, while the section on syntax covers the nuances of sentence patterns as well as both traditional sentence diagramming and transformational grammar. The usage section provides an unprecedented trove of empirical evidence in the form of Google Ngrams, diagrams that illustrate the changing prevalence of specific terms over decades and even centuries of English literature. Garner also treats punctuation and word formation, and concludes the book with an exhaustive glossary of grammatical terms and a bibliography of suggested further reading and references.The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation is a magisterial work, the culmination of Garner’s lifelong study of the English language. The result is a landmark resource that will offer clear guidelines to students, writers, and editors alike. “[A manual] for those of us laboring to produce expository prose: nonfiction books, journalistic articles, memorandums, business letters. The conservatism of his advice pushes you to consider audience and occasion, so that you will understand when to follow convention and when you can safely break it.”—John E. McIntyre, Baltimore Sun

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This book is essentially an expansion of Garner's usage chapter from the CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE with a distinct emphasis on correctness rather than the style, workflow, and formatting covered in CMOS. And that's a good thing, as it focuses on helping writers at all levels. Less pedantic (in my opinion, anyway) than GARNER'S MODERN ENGLISH USAGE, and more accessible as a result, it follows a similar structure to that of CMOS. Some may find GARNER'S MODERN ENGLISH USAGE hard to follow because the head entries are alphabetical, and for those readers this book will seem more logical as it is grouped by typical subjects (e.g., prepositions, clauses, subjects, verbs). Other huge selling points are a 100-page subchapter titled Troublesome Words and Phrases, a 32-page Word Index, and an 88-page Select Glossary (I wonder what the Unabridged Glossary looks like). All of these are great aids for less-experienced writers or those who find certain indexing styles particularly vexing (nearly always the fault of the author or indexer, not the reader, by the way, and I'm not being sarcastic in this particular instance).One reason I like Garner's other book is its use of relevant and user-friendly examples. CMOS is not always so generous with such examples, though it is improving. The CHICAGO GUIDE TO GRAMMAR, USAGE, AND PUNCTUATION uses numerous examples in every section, and in many cases it divides them into "good usage" and "bad usage" categories to show both right and wrong variations. I find this much more helpful in explaining usage to others and it should aid comprehension for many readers. Garner also uses word-frequency data to show the prevalence of certain word forms and their lexicological competitors.This book is an excellent reference choice for writers at all levels (editors also will find good examples to clarify usage for themselves and clients). And a word for those who've heard that Garner is prescriptivist—he only seems prescriptivist for those rules that good writers do and should follow to ensure that readers take them seriously. He often points to certain uses that just don't matter so much anymore (e.g., he notes that "hopefully" is still avoided by good writers, but that the differentiation is likely lost on most readers and therefore not so important). And in case you wondered whether all those actors who pronounce "homage" as "OH-MAUGE' " and "often" as "OFT' EN" were just being pretentious—they are (of course I'm biased—otherwise, why would I write a silly review?).And finally (I presume you are cheering), at least Garner had the knowledge and good sense to provide a proper title for his book, unlike those numerous ones calling "usage" "grammar" and "grammar" "usage" without any hint of shame.

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