Basics of English Usage

<p>Should I say "He is taller than I" or "He is taller than me?"</p><p>Do you spell it "blond" or "blonde"?</p><p>If you’ve ever been stopped in your tracks by questions like these, then this book is for you. A complete pocket guide to the ins and outs of everyday English, <em>The Basics of English Usage</em> will tell you all you need to know about such topics as:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>correct spelling</li> <p> </p> <li>good grammar and style</li> <p> </p> <li>punctuation and how to use it</li> <p> </p> <li>problem words that everyone gets wrong.</li> </ul><p>Including guides to further reading and online resources, <em>The Basics of English Usage </em>is an indispensable survival guide for anyone wanting to improve their writing and communication.</p> <p>1 Introduction -- 2 Spelling -- Words people get wrong -- Confusions -- I before e -- Plurals -- Suffixes -- American spelling -- Program/programme -- Spelling of French words -- 2 Grammar and style -- 3 Problem words -- 4 Punctuation -- Accents, accent marks, diacritics -- Apostrophe -- Asterisk, star -- Bold -- Brackets, round, square, angle, brace -- Bullet point, blob -- Capitals, caps, upper case -- Caret -- Colon -- Comma -- Dagger, obelisk -- Dash -- Ditto marks -- Dots, ellipsis, leader dots -- Exclamation mark, screamer, shriek -- Full stop, full point, period -- Hash -- Hyphen -- Italics -- Numbers, fractions, dates -- Paragraph break -- Question mark, query -- Quote marks, quotes, inverted commas -- Semicolon -- Slash, bar, diagonal, oblique, shilling mark, solidus, stroke, virgule -- Underlining -- Further reading.</p>