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Hi everyone, I've seen both The Elements of Style and the Chicago Manual of Style mentioned on the site before but when I tried searches for posts or threads of either book, nothing came up.
I know CMoS has sections for Epublishing, publishers/editors, copywriters, and style/grammer. But I'm not really looking for most of that stuff right now.
What I want to know is, does the Elements of Style have all of the grammer and style info that CMoS has? Passive/Action verbs, grammer and punctuation rules, sentence structures--basically all of the stuff from High School english class? Are there any other books besides these 2 mentioned that have the same reference material?
I've been out of school for a long time and I need to get some kind of reference book but I don't really need all of the other stuff that CMoS has at the moment.
Thanks for any help you all can give.
I know CMoS has sections for Epublishing, publishers/editors, copywriters, and style/grammer. But I'm not really looking for most of that stuff right now.
What I want to know is, does the Elements of Style have all of the grammer and style info that CMoS has? Passive/Action verbs, grammer and punctuation rules, sentence structures--basically all of the stuff from High School english class? Are there any other books besides these 2 mentioned that have the same reference material?
I've been out of school for a long time and I need to get some kind of reference book but I don't really need all of the other stuff that CMoS has at the moment.
Thanks for any help you all can give.