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The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left
The Fight for English How Language Pundits Ate Shot and Left
Author: David Crystal
Weve all been taught that this sentence--"Driving in from the airport, the flags flapped furiously"--is wrong, wrong, wrong. But is it, asks David Crystal. Everyone knows what this sentence means. No one actually thinks that the flags were driving the car. Is this sentence really incorrect. — In The Fight for English, Crystal offers a stimulating...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199229697
ISBN-10: 0199229694
Publication Date: 1/3/2008
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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