The Century Handbook of Writing
by Garland Greever, Easley S. Jones
Publisher: The Century Company 1927
ISBN/ASIN: B000L2A9XK
Description:
This handbook treats essential matters of grammar, diction, spelling, mechanics; and develops with thoroughness the principles of sentence structure. Larger units of composition it leaves to the texts in formal rhetoric. [1927]
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