How to Speak and Write Correctly: Joseph Devlin's Classic Text

The classic text on how to speak and write English correctly. *** In the preparation of this little work the writer has kept one end in view viz.: To make it serviceable for those for whom it is intended that is for those who have neither the time nor the opportunity the learning nor the inclination to peruse elaborate and abstruse treatises on Rhetoric Grammar and Composition. To them such works are as gold enclosed in chests of steel and locked beyond power of opening. This book has no pretension about it whatever -it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric expatiating on the dogmas of style nor a Grammar full of arbitrary rules and exceptions. It is merely an effort to help ordinary everyday people to express themselves in ordinary everyday language in a proper manner.