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Our use of language naturally evolves and is a living breathing thing that reflects who we are. Says Who? offers clear, nuanced guidance that goes beyond “right” and “wrong” to empower us to make informed language choices. Never snooty or scoldy (yes, that’s a “real” word!), this book explains where the grammar rules we learned in school actually come from and reveals the forces that drive dictionary editors to label certain words as slang or unacceptable.

A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography. Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger (†)—which alternately illuminated and skewered heretical verses of the early Bible—or the at sign (@), which languished in obscurity for centuries until rescued by the Internet, Keith Houston draws on myriad sources to chart the life and times of these enigmatic squiggles, both exotic (¶) and everyday (&).

This book is for anyone interested in improving their writing skills in English. It is written from the standpoint of someone who wants to improve their English grammar. The book will not only introduce you to the basics of English grammar, but it will also help you memorize them easily.

Like a seasoned sportscaster, Fish marvels at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences and breaks them down into digestible morsels, giving listeners an instant play-by-play. Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen, How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual—it is a spirited love letter to the written word, and a key to understanding how great writing works. It is a book that will stand the test of time.

La puntuación es un sistema de convenciones que otorga mayor precisión y profundidad a las letras y palabras, dotándolas de color y emoción, tono y ritmo. De hecho, tiene consecuencias aún más drásticas: los signos de puntuación no son únicamente una parte importante de nuestro código idiomático, sino que se transformaron nada menos que en una de las fuerzas impulsoras en el desarrollo de toda nuestra civilización occidental.

Inside this book, we have compiled 101 of our most popular emails that our students have enjoyed and loved. Learn about French culture, fashion, history, and the best cities to visit. See what their favorite drinks are, and what cheeses you must try when you’re there!

Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot, redundant, and unique incorrectly every day. Don’t be one of them. Using examples of misuse from leading newspapers, prominent public figures and famous writers, among others, language gurus Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras explain how to avoid these perilous pitfalls in the English language.

Welcome to Vocabulary For Adults! This audiobook follows a very unique method of learning to ensure the greatest amount of retention. You will learn easier and remember more. Please note, this is intended to be listened to as an audiobook to get the maximum benefit from it. The audiobook has background music and paced reading that enhances the learning experience.

Communicating in Written English: A Guide to Prepare for College Level Reading and Writing bridges the gap for students who are starting their first year in college after many years absent from the classroom. This easy guide provides tips for reading analysis, sentence structure, punctuation, writing composition, essay construction, common mistakes made by freshman college students, and general advice for your freshman composition course. This is the perfect jumpstart to ensure your readiness for English 101. 

When Ellen Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a GRAMMAR TABLE sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Grammar Table was such a hit—attracting the attention of the New York Times, NPR, and CBS National News—that Jovin soon took it on the road, traveling across the US to answer questions from writers, lawyers, editors, businesspeople, students, bickering couples, and anyone else who uses words in this world.

"GuíaBurros: Hablar y escribir con corrección" es una guía con TODO lo que debes saber para comunicarte con precisión, desde los terminos básicos, pasando por la ortografía, puntuación y acentuación, hasta los clichés, frases hechas y tópicos.

Did you ever hear a young rooster trying to learn to crow? He had to work at it until he perfected his unique sound. Like farm chickens, we have much to communicate. What joy it brings when we organize our thoughts and learn to choose the right words that are standard. We want to have variety in our human communications with color and character, humor and sincerity, polished and practiced to an acceptable standard. In Brilliant, you will find words and speech patterns that will add to the appropriateness of language. 

¿Cómo y cuándo se utilizan las mayúsculas, negritas o cursivas ?, ¿cómo se escriben correctamente las siglas?, ¿sabe usar bien los signos de puntuación?, ¿tiene errores ortográficos?, ¿problemas con las tildes? En la actualidad es indispensable en el ámbito laboral y profesional saber escribir sin errores y redactar correctamente.

Would you like to be able to discover the most commonly used American idioms and phrases that will make communication a breeze? If so great you are in the right place, with our vocabulary builder two-in-one idioms set! Would you like to become fluent at a language and have a full understanding of all the commonly used terms so that when speaking to the natives you blend right in? Sometimes you need a special audiobook which can properly guide you so you can skip all of the useless bs and not waste your time learning words and phrases which will never come up.

Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America's most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost 30 years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of 50 short essays on different aspects of writing. In the past decade, Writing Tools has become a classic guidebook for novices and experts alike and remains one of the best loved books on writing available. This new edition includes five brand-new, never-before-shared tools.

For too long, sentence instruction has been heavy on correctness and terminology (as in “mind your grammar”) and light on play and experimentation. Or it has been abandoned altogether. In this lively book, Marty Brandt sets out to change all that.

Grammar is about much more than rules: It’s about choices, too - since a thought can always be expressed correctly in multiple ways. Why settle for a normal audiobook on grammar when you could learn new things about it and become your own best self at the same time? Grammar is about much more than rules: It’s about choices, too - since a thought can always be expressed correctly in multiple ways. Weinstein shows that certain tweaks to a person’s grammar can bring consequential changes in his or her fulfillment and well-being.

Kingsley Amis' authoritative and witty guide to the use and abuse of the English language. A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension, Amis provides indispensable advice about the linguistic blunders and barbarities that lie in wait for us, from danglers, four-letter words to jargon and even Welsh rarebit. By turns reflective, acerbic and provocative, The King's English is for anyone who cares about how the English language is used. 

Curso de inglés definitivo: Principiante es un curso íntegramente diseñado para estudiar por cuenta propia y en él se sintetizan las principales líneas del sistema de enseñanza de Richard Vaughan. En total son 25 lecciones en las cuales estudiaras todos los aspectos del inglés, Reading, Listening, Grammar, Vocabulary, Speaking y Writing. 

Se trata de un audio que forma parte de la colección la trilogía del inglés y que se centra en la mejora de determinados puntos gramaticales clave. Selecciona palabra gramaticales clave y presenta frases de uso común para entenderlas.