My favorite app.. but one thing
A near-perfect app, and one simple change would eliminate the “near.” Make a random entry button! My favorite part of the app is to go down an entry rabbit hole. How exciting if, like Wikipedia, one could press a button and be brought to an entry that perhaps they would not have stumbled across otherwise. This would be an easy add, please consider!
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Garner's Modern English Usage is the gold standard—& this is a joy to use to prove your friends wron
Garner's Modern English Usage app is a joy to use. You can search just about any topic that is vexxing you (e.g., "comprise" versus "constitute") and find a resolution along with a detailed explanation and usage statistics.
When you're in a grammar debate, you can take a screenshot and text it to your friends proving them wrong. What could be better than that?
When you're in a grammar debate, you can take a screenshot and text it to your friends proving them wrong. What could be better than that?
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Extremely Useful and Portable
An excellent reference work. The application is quite convenient; unlike the book, you can carry it with you wherever you go. Very fast and efficient for looking up particular words and phrases, which is the primary task for a usage guide. Worth the money. Highly recommended.
The Best
Useful and outstanding. One of the few works that I have in both print and electronic editions.
Love GMEU
GMEU is the incomparable source for American English usage. I keep the book at my desk at work, but with the pandemic I needed something for home. I really like the app, but have two issues. 1. As many have mentioned, the text size should be adjustable. 2. I can’t figure out how to use the Favorites list! I’ve tried everything and nothing works. I’m quite disappointed because I was really looking forward to using that aspect.
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Great content, app stopped working in iOS 13
I’m leaving this review to, I hope, get someone’s attention. I have, and have read, all of Garner’s books and they’re all great. No issue there. But the app has suddenly stopped working on 2 phones and 2 iPads I have running iOS 13. The app appears not to have been updated in a year.
I’ll update the review if this is fixed.
I’ll update the review if this is fixed.
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Great content, terrible style
The guide cannot be beat: authoritative discussions of just about every style or usage question imaginable. But the font is too small, the text is unattractive, and there are no options for adjusting the appearance. Disappointing!
Incomparable
The best app of its kind that I know of. I am a professional editor and consult this app every day or just about. Fast search for the best usage guide makes this truly indispensable. The quizzes are great fun and educational too. A no-brainer, even for the price.
Worth The Investment!
I can't express how cool (nerdy-cool) it is to have this indispensable reference tool on my iPhone and iPad. It's easily navigable and more efficient than I was expecting, given the volume of information. I would also love to see an app for the Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage and Punctuation. Please! That would be over-the-top awesome!
One other, ongoing request: please keep the updates reasonably current and the app running smoothly. The biggest letdown happens when a great app is neglected or abandoned. It happens far too often. Thank you!
One other, ongoing request: please keep the updates reasonably current and the app running smoothly. The biggest letdown happens when a great app is neglected or abandoned. It happens far too often. Thank you!
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An indispensable guide for careful speakers and writers
Garner’s Modern English Usage is the best current usage guide to good English and may be the greatest usage guide ever written. Having it in an iPhone app form makes it even more useful. Garner is to the 21st century what H.W. Fowler’s "Dictionary
of Modern English Usage" was to the 20th. He fills the void left by modern dictionaries and guides that are too squeamish to give sound advice on speaking and writing good
Standard English. If you aspire to be a careful speaker and writer of good English, make this book (and app) a trusted, frequently consulted, lifelong friend.
of Modern English Usage" was to the 20th. He fills the void left by modern dictionaries and guides that are too squeamish to give sound advice on speaking and writing good
Standard English. If you aspire to be a careful speaker and writer of good English, make this book (and app) a trusted, frequently consulted, lifelong friend.
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GMEU
Exceptional.
Perfect.
Easy-to-use; searchable; nonpareil; and can answer any English usage question you throw at it.
Clean, quick, and portable
Many nice touches. For example book page numbers at bottom of individual entries.
Clean interface and easy navigation are among the best features.
Clean interface and easy navigation are among the best features.
Can't Adjust Text Size
I'm so glad to finally have this reference as an app on my phone and iPad. And so disappointed that it doesn't allow you to adjust the text size. Two stars off for the forced squinting.
