The Concise Usage and Abusage

adjective adverb ambiguity American English American usage applied archaic archaism avoided better C. T. Onions catachrestic cliché colloquial comma common COMPARATIVES confused connotes context correct dialect Dictionary distinction Dr Onions E. R. Punshon error especially example expression false formal former Fowler French FUSED PARTICIPLES genitive gerund Grammar H. W. Fowler hence hyphen I. A. Richards idea idiom idiomatic illiterate implies incorrect inferior infinitive kind language Latin latter less literal literary logical means ment modern nature never noun nuances object obsolescent occasionally misused one's oneself opposite past participle person phrase plural poetic possessive précis preferable preposition PREPOSITIONS WRONGLY preterite pronoun prose PUNCTUATION relative clause sense sentence short singular slang sometimes speak speech spelling Standard English style subjunctive synonym Syntax TAUTOLOGY tense term thing tion tive usual verb vogue word Webster's Weseen whereas WOOLLINESS writing wrong