Accidents of Style

their and There to serious smashups such as misusing sensual for sensuous or writing loathe when you mean loath.charles Harrington elster shows you how to navigate the hairpin turns of grammar diction spelling and punctuation with an entertaining driver''s manual covering 350 common word hazards and infractions arranged in order of complexity for writers of all levels. Elster illustrates these surprisingly common accidents with quotations from numerous print and online publications many of them highly regarded-whichc perhaps should make us feel better: if the horrendous redundancy close proximity and the odious construction have appeared in maybe our own accidents will be forgiven. But that shouldn''t keep us from aspiring to accident-free writing and speaking. if you want to get on the road to writing well will help you drive home what you want to say..