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"Be in no doubt- the beer was drunk but the man drank the beer.' 'We must avoid vulgarities like ""front up"". If someone is ""fronting up"" a television show, then he is presenting it.' Simon Heffer's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the Telegraph about grammatical mistakes and stylistic slips have attracted a growing band of ardent fans over recent years. Now, in his new book Strictly English, he makes an impassioned case for correct English and offers practical advice on how to avoid the solecisms and mangled sentences that increasingly pepper everyday speech and writing. If you have ever been guilty of writing 'different than', if you have ever tortured the language by saying 'Thank you for asking my friend and I', if you have ever confused 'imply' and 'infer', then this book will prove essential reading. It will also reassuringly show you that accuracy and clarity need not be the preserve of an elite- they are within the grasp of anyone who is prepared to take the time to master a few simple rules"

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In a career of more than 25 years in Fleet Street Simon Heffer has written columns for and held senior positions on the Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator. It was while associate editor of The Daily Telegraph that his emails to staff lamenting their lapses in English became an internet cult, and led to the writing of this book. He read English at Cambridge and holds a PhD from that university in history. His previous books include-Moral Desperado- A Life of Thomas Carlyle,Like the Roman- The Life of Enoch Powell,Nor Shall My Sword- The Reinvention of EnglandandVaughan Williams.

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