A Dictionary of Modern American Usage

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A Dictionary of Modern American Usage is Bryan A. Garner’s influential usage guide to contemporary American English that served as the foundation for his later, expanded work Garner's Modern English Usage.

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instanceOf reference book
style guide
usage guide
approach prescriptive
author Bryan A. Garner NERFINISHED
basisFor Garner's Modern American Usage NERFINISHED
Garner's Modern English Usage NERFINISHED
contains recommendations on disputed usages
usage notes
word entries
countryOfFocus United States NERFINISHED
focus contemporary American usage
genre non-fiction
hasEditionType first edition
influenced later American usage guides
intendedAudience editors
lawyers
students
writers
language English
mediaType print
notableFor influence on legal and editorial style
systematic treatment of American usage controversies
publicationYear 1998
publisher Oxford University Press
relatedWork Garner's Modern American Usage NERFINISHED
Garner's Modern English Usage NERFINISHED
subject English language usage
grammar
lexicography
style
timePeriodCovered late 20th century American English
variantOfEnglish American English NERFINISHED

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Garner's Modern English Usage basedOn A Dictionary of Modern American Usage
Garner's Modern English Usage predecessor A Dictionary of Modern American Usage