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Title: To Be or Not: An E-Prime Anthology by D. David Bourland, Paul Dennithorne Johnston ISBN: 0-918970-38-5 Publisher: Intl Society for General Semantics Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $19.95

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Summary: A brisker, less biased English
Comment: If we don't use the word "is" or any other form of the verb "to be," what happens? The book "To Be or Not" shows what happens when we use active verbs instead, and how to use them, to write a more briskly informative English.

Instead of saying "Bill is bad" (a possibly harmful judgement, which tells us nothing about Bill himself), say what you have seen him do. Judgements using "is" may keep us from noticing much or thinking accurately; they may have us reacting in recklessly all-or-nothing ways as we assume that what we already feel is the truth, the whole truth, and all that matters.

In two introductions, a dozen articles, and one short story, "To Be or Not" provides a lively and easily understood introduction to E-Prime, English without the verb "to be," a remarkably practical semantics which anyone using English needs.

Related books:

"More E-Prime: To Be or Not II" (more descriptions of how using active verbs produces a more briskly specific and informative English)

'E-Prime III! A Third Anthology" (more descriptions, including how often some famous examples of English use "to be")

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Title: E-Prime Iii!: A Third Anthology by D. David Bourland, Paul Dennithorne Johnston ISBN: 0918970466 Publisher: Intl Society for General Semantics Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95