Grammatically Correct: The writer's essential guide to punctuation ...

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The English language is the sea which receives tributaries from
every region under heaven.
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Between the various invasions of the British Isles and British colonization,
about 80 percent of English has foreign origins. The huge vocabulary of
the language naturally leads to occasional errors on the part of its users,
and the challenges go further than just coping with the wildly unpho­
netic orthography. When putting down what they want to say, writers
must sort through a plethora of similar-sounding words, words that have
almost-but not quite-the same shade of meaning, and words that take
unexpected forms in their plural or negative states. This chapter reviews
some common errors.
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