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For Who the Bell Tolls by David Marsh is a reference work available to read on EtoBox.

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For Who the Bell Tolls is a book that explains the grammar that people really need to know, such as the fact that an apostrophe is the difference between a company that knows its s*** and a company that knows it's s***, or the importance of capital letters to avoid ambiguity in such sentences as 'I helped my Uncle Jack off his horse.'David Marsh's lifelong mission has been to create order out of chaos. For four decades, he has worked for newspapers, from the Sunto the Financial Times, from local weeklies that sold a few thousand copies to the Guardian, with its global readership of nine million, turning the sow's ear of rough-and-ready reportage into a passable imitation of a silk purse.The chaos might be sloppy syntax, a disregard for grammar or a fundamental misunderstanding of what grammar is. It could be an adherence to 'rules' that have no real basis and get in...

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It is typically read by readers who need quick, reliable lookup and repeat reference.

Common subject areas: reference, language, dictionaries and manuals.

Author
David Marsh
Publisher
Guardian Faber Publishing
Published
2013
Language
EN
Category
reference
Subjects
Language Learning, Grammar, Dictionaries & Phrasebooks, Language
Rating
4.2 / 5 (94 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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