The Art Of Writing and Speaking The English Language: Study

"Do You Make These Mistakes in English?"

Sherwin Cody was an American writer and entrepreneur who developed a long-running home-study course in speaking and writing with an advertisement with this title.

A critic of traditional English education, Cody advocated colloquial style and grammar. He asked:

• What is the reason so many of us are deficient in the use of English and find our careers stunted in consequence?
• Why is it some cannot spell correctly and others cannot punctuate?
• Why do so man...