That or Which, and Why is an insightful and witty guide to writing. Based on Evan Jenkins's long-running column 'Language Corner' in Columbia Journalism Review, the book is compiled of brief, alphabetically arranged entries on approximately 200 major writing stumbling blocks, from the wonderful world of 'that' and 'which' to trickier terrain like the correct usage of common idiomatic expressions. Working from his experiences as a newsroom editor and teacher, Jenkins' humorous tone puts the reader at ease, unlike many of the writing and usage guides out there that are off-putting in their rigidity and dogmatism. He takes the 'we're-all-in-this-together' approach to teaching better writing - maintaining a light tone throughout the book and emphasizing flexibility and easy-to-use guidelines rather than delivering orders from Grammar-on-high.
Author(s): Evan Jenkins
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 166
Tags: English language: Usage: Handbooks, Manuals, etc, English Language: Errors Of Usage: Handbooks, Manuals, etc, English Language: Grammar: Handbooks, Manuals, etc, Language Arts & Disciplines: General: English Language: Errors Of Usage, English Language: Grammar, English Language: Usage
A vs --
An --
A Historic, etc --
Adverb Placement --
Adverse/Averse --
Adviser/Advisor --
Historic/Historical --
Affect/Effect --
Allude/Refer --
Along With --
Alternate/Alternative --
Antecedents --
'As Such' (Transition) --
Assure/Ensure/Insure --
As, Then As --
As vs --
So --
As Well As, Too (Starting Sentence) --
AttorneyS General, etc --
The Authorities --
Award/Reward --
Awhile/A While --
Bacterium/Bacteria --
(Feel) Bad/Badly --
Baited/Bated (Breath) --
'Because' and 'Since' --
Beg the Question --
Beside/BesideS --
Between/Among --
'Between… --
and, ' Not 'Between… --
to' --
Between the Cracks --
Bid, Bid, Bade --
'Big of a' --
Borne Out, With an 'E' --
Both --
Brackets --
Broadcast, the Verb --
Cardinal/Ordinal Numbers --
Cast, the Verb --
Center Around/On --
Chair/Chairperson --
Cohort --
'Collective' --
Collective Nouns --
Compare To/With --
Comprise --
Could/Couldn't Care Less --
Criterion/Criteria --
Phenomenon/Phenomena --
Danglers --
Decimate --
Declined TO Comment --
Defining Clause --
See That vs --
Which --
'Democratic, ' the Adjective --
Difference/Differential --
Different From/Than --
Double Possessive I --
Double Possessive II --
Drag/'Drug' --
Due To --
Each Other/One Another --
Eke --
Elegant Variation --
Echo --
Enormity --
Evoke/Invoke --
Precipitate/Precipitous --
Facility --
False Titles --
Farther/Further --
Feud --
Fewer/Less --
Five Times Below, 160% Less, etc --
Flaunt/Flout --
Fondle --
Forbid --
Make the past tense "forbade." --
'Former Native' --
Fortuitous --
'From Whence' --
See Whence --
Fulsome --
Problematic --
Fused Participle --
'Off Of' --
Gantlet/Gauntlet --
Stanch/Staunch --
Gerrymander/Jerry-Built/Jury-Rigged --
Gibe/Jibe --
Gild/Paint the Lily --
(I Am) Good / (I Am) Well --
'Graduated College' --
Graffito/Graffiti --
Hand Down/Hand Up --
Hanged/Hung --
Have to/Got to --
Head/Head Up --
Heart-Rending/Heart-Wrenching --
He or She, etc --
Hold [Down] the Fort --
Home/Hone --
Honored in the Breach --
'Human Race' --
See Oddities --
Hyphens --
'If Not' --
Impact, the Verb --
Implement --
Imply/Infer --
Important/Importantly --
Incidence/Incident/Instance --
Individuals/People/Persons --
In Line/On Line, Online --
'In Order To' --
In, Up and On --
Irrelevant (NOT 'Irrevelant') --
'Issues' --
Late, as in Dead --
Lend/Loan --
Lie, Lay, and All That --
'Lightening' --
'Forecasted' --
Like/Such As --
Like, With a Clause --
Lion's Share --
Literally --
Loath/Loathe --
Located/Situated --
Masterful/Masterly --
May/Might --
'Media, ' Plural --
Me, Myself (Reflexive Pronouns) --
Mondegreen --
Monies --
More Than/Over --
Myriad --
Namesake --
'Near Miss' --
Neither --
None, Plural --
Normalcy --
Notoriety --
Oddities --
'Older Than Him' --
'To She and I' --
One Of/Among With Plural Verb --
'One of the Only' --
'Only, ' Placement Of --
Oral/Verbal --
Orient/Orientate --
Partake/Participate/Take Part --
People/Persons --
See Individuals/People/Persons --
Per --
'Pleaded Guilty' --
Pole/Post Position --
Police, The --
Possessive Nouns with Pronouns --
Preposition Ending Sentence --
Prior to/Before --
Rage/Wage --
Ravage/Ravish --
Raveled Sleave, With an 'A' --
A Reader's Potpourri --
The Reason Is That --
Rebut/Refute --
Reference as a Verb --
Regard/Regards --
Reluctant/Reticent --
Remunerate/Renumerate --
Replete --
Resonate --
Reverend --
Sequence of Tenses --
Series: Changing Numbers --
Series, Run-On --
Serve/Service --
Singular Noun, Plural Pronoun --
Sleight/Slight of Hand --
'Snuck' --
Split Infinitive --
Straighten/Straiten --
Suspect/Suspected (adj.) --
Swatch/Swath --
Tautology --
'That Of, ' Omitted --
That vs --
Which --
'They Each' --
Till/Until --
Tons Was --
Tortuous/Torturous --
'To She and I' --
See 'Older Than Him' --
To… --
To --
Toward(s) --
Troopers/Troupers --
Try And/Try To --
Unique --
Use/Usage --
Wangle/Wrangle --
Weapon(s) Inspector --
'Well, ' the Adjective --
Whence --
Where… --
at --
Wherefore --
Whether (or not) --
Who/Whom --
Whose/Of Which --
'Woof Down' --
You, Understood.
