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A revised and updated edition of the iconic grammar guide for the 21st century. In this expanded and updated edition of Woe Is I , former editor at The New York Times Book Review Patricia T. O'Conner unties the knottiest grammar tangles with the same insight and humor that have charmed and enlightened readers of previous editions for years. With fresh insights into the rights, wrongs, and maybes of English grammar and usage, O'Conner offers in Woe Is I down-to-earth explanations and plain-English solutions to the language mysteries that bedevil all of us. "Books about English grammar and usage are... never content with the status quo," O'Conner writes. "That's because English is not a stay-put language. It's always changing—expanding here, shrinking there, trying on new things, casting off old ones... Time doesn't stand still and neither does language." In this fourth edition, O'Conner explains how the usage of an array of words has evolved. For example, the once-shunned "they," "them," and "their" for an unknown somebody is now acceptable. And the battle between "who" and "whom" has just about been won, O'Conner says (hint: It wasn't by "whom"). Then there's the use of "taller

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Author

Patricia T. O’Conner

Publisher

Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780525533061

Category

reference

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Education

Rating

4.6 / 5 (358 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14