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Classic Reference
Customers highly value The Complete Plain Words as a classic reference for clear and effective writing in English. They appreciate its usefulness and the index, although some find it a bit old fashioned but still important.
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Writing Improvement
Customers have generally positive opinions about The Complete Plain Words as an effective guide to writing improvement. It is considered wise, witty, and filled with valuable examples of good and bad English. Some users find it particularly useful for those who write official English for a living, while others appreciate its commonsense approach to grammar and punctuation. However, some users suggest that it may not be suitable for individuals without a strong foundation in grammar and punctuation.
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Quality
Excellent book for sorting out those tricky writing issues.
The result is a fantastic and valuable guide to how to write better.
This is not a strict grammar with definitive statements on the split infinitive or the use of hyphens, it is a council of commo... Read More
My own copy of the book is the second edition, edited by his great successor sir bruce fraser, and apart from its value as a gu... Read More
Competitiveness
The economist style guide is also a worthy competitor, even if a bit slanted towards journalistic english.
On the other hand it is not without rivals.
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english, plain, good, written and useful. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 3.
- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 75.3% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 72 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 3 2024.
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Phrases like in terms of engaging in constructive dialogue like you know i mean would be eliminated together with those dreadful words overall and involvement
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Very scholarly stuff but it can only improve your english delivery
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It is a mine of information when it comes to the handling of words
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I recently got this book because my previous copy had fallen apart with use only the second book of mine to which this has happened see my other reviews
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On the other hand it is not without rivals
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I love strunk and white for its sheer ciceronian bite
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For a more compact book one can also try the oxford guide to plain english
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Scary when you think about speech
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