American Usage: the Consensus

acceptable adjective adverb ambiguous Ameri applied Bern Bernstein and Copperud Bernstein and Evans Bernstein and Fowler Britain British cites cized clause cliché colloquial comma concur confused consensus considered standard construction contexts Copperud and Evans correct current dictionaries DANGLING MODIFIERS described diction dictionaries give disapproves displaces distinction English euphemism Evans and Flesch Evans and Fowler Evans points Evans says example expression favors Flesch and Fowler Flesch says Follett Fowler agree Fowler point Fowler says H. W. Fowler Heritage point House and Webster hyphen ican Heritage idiom indicate interchangeable itage journalese lett lished means ment misspelled misused modifiers newspaper noun object participle perud phrase plural preferable preposition pretentious pronoun Random House gives redundant regarded sense sentence sidered singular sion Sir Ernest Gowers slang sometimes spelling Standard College stein ster synonym term tion tionaries tive usually verb Webster consider Webster gives Webster recognize word writing