The King’s English
by H. W. Fowler
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About this eBook
- Author
- Fowler, F. G. (Francis George), 1870-1918
- Title
- The King's English
- Original Publication
- London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1924.
- Credits
- The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PE: Language and Literatures: English
- Subject
- English language -- Great Britain -- Usage
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 75439
- Release Date
- February 22, 2025
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE KING’S ENGLISH
- 2.Untitled
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- 5.CONTENTS
- 6.CHAPTER I VOCABULARY — General — Malaprops — Neologisms — Americanisms — Foreign Words — False, Ugly, or Needless Formations — Slang — Particular Words — FOOTNOTES:
- 7.CHAPTER II SYNTAX — Case — Number — Comparatives and Superlatives — Relatives — Participle and Gerund — Participles — The Gerund — Shall and Will — The Perfect Infinitive — Conditionals — ‘Doubt that’ and ‘doubt whether’ — Prepositions — FOOTNOTES:
- 8.CHAPTER III AIRS AND GRACES — Certain Types of Humour — Elegant Variation — Inversion — Archaism — Metaphor — Repetition — Miscellaneous
- 9.CHAPTER IV PUNCTUATION — The Colon — Dashes — Hyphens — Quotation Marks — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.PART II
- 11.INDEX
- 12.Some Oxford Books on ENGLISH
- 13.OXFORD SERIES OF TEXTS OR TRANSLATIONS FOR SCHOOLS — Transcriber’s Notes
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