THE JOY OF ENGLISH
100 Conversations about the English language Jesse Karjalainen PRICE EXTENT BINDING FORMAT ISBN PUB DATE
£12.99 256 pages Hardback 198 X 129 mm 978-1-84528-478-7 25th November 2011
BIC CODE
CB; CBW
CATEGORY TERRITORIES
Reference Worldwide
KEY POINTS
The primary market for this book is anyone wanting to improve their English in both the home and work environment: students, graduates, writers, word lovers and language buffs, bloggers etc.
This book emphasises good English usage as well as grammar, and includes around 1500 examples.
The Joy of English cuts to the heart of what readers want: help with their English. Questions such as:
Who versus whom Less versus fewer As versus because In contrast to versus by contrast Further versus farther Learned versus learnt Imply versus infer Practice versus practise Provided versus providing
See attached contents and sample entry.
Jesse Karjalainen is a writer, journalist and sub-editor of a scientific journal. He studied journalism in Edinburgh and has worked for several national newspapers. He is based in Bristol. Jesse will promote the book on his English language website whichenglish.com (2000 hits per month) and also has a dedicated website for the book: thejoyofenglish.com from where he will have a blog, embedded YouTube videos, author interviews and an even calendar. There will also be a Facebook profile speciically for the book.
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