Grammar category: 1029 books
The Accidents of Style
Good Advice on How Not to Write Badly
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Fasten your seat belt for a crash course in careful usage.... Just like automobile accidents, accidents of style occur all over the English-speaking world, in print and on the Internet, thousands of times every day. They range from minor fender benders, such as confusing their and there, to serious...
by Mitchell Ivers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Clear, concise, effective, THE RANDOM HOUSE GUIDE TO GOOD WRITING is for anyone who wishes to communicate well in writing. Mitchell Ivers shows us how to master the medium and the message with an array of features: Precise guidelines on word usage, grammar, and punctuation--and how to decide with...
Effective Writing
Plain English at Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
'Effective writing: plain English at work, second edition, is about writing that works: it is based on sound English grammar and plain English style. If you want to write in a way that is clear and meaningful, to avoid writing ‘gobbledegook’, and to be able to explain effective writing to others,...
Self-editing for Writers
Tips for Taking Your Book from Rough Draft to Polished Final
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
How to Take Your Rough Draft and Polish It
for Others’ Eyes
Ann Jacobs, multi-published author of bestselling, award-winning novels and novellas, takes you step by step through the self-edits you need to perform before presenting your book or novella to a publisher,...
Where's U're?
A Correct Grammar Usage Handbook for Common Errors
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2007
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Write Smart
A Simplified, 21st Century Writing System
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
A training manual for professionals in business, government, and education, covering grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, and style. Base on the hardcopy edition used in training programs since 1983.
How to Not Write Bad
The Most Common Writing Problems and the Best Ways to Avoid Them
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Ben Yagoda's How to Not Write Bad illustrates how we can all write better, more clearly, and for a wider readership.
He offers advice on what he calls "not-writing-badly," which consists of the ability, first, to craft sentences that are correct in terms of spelling, diction (word choice),...
Elementary Vietnamese, Third Edition
Moi ban noi tieng Viet. Let's Speak Vietnamese. (Downloadable Audio Included)
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
This is a complete Vietnamese language course designed for college or high schoollevel classroom use or selfstudy.
Since its publication in 1998, Elementary Vietnamese has become the leading book for anyone wishing to learn Vietnamese, and an invaluable resource for people traveling, studying...
The Art of Writing and Speaking English
Sherwin Cody
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
A detailed treatise on writing and speaking in English, including chapters on humour, spelling, letters and sounds, grammar and more.
In writing it is often necessary to break words at the ends of lines. This can properly be done only between syllables, and this is the usage in the United...
by Mary Norris
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
"Hilarious…This book charmed my socks off." —Patricia O’Conner, New York Times Book Review
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. In Between You & Me, she brings...
When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It
The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
What do you get when you mix nine parts of speech, one great writer, and generous dashes of insight, humor, and irreverence? One phenomenally entertaining language book*.*
In his waggish yet authoritative book, Ben Yagoda has managed to undo the dark work of legions of English teachers and...
by Helena van Schalkwyk
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
This completely revised and updated edition of Teach Yourself Afrikaans is for all those who seek to communicate in Afrikaans It has been written for students with no previous experience or knowledge of the language, and is especially aimed at those who wish to study at home. The grammar, syntax and...
A World Without "Whom"
The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
"A provocative and jaunty romp through the dos and don'ts of writing for the internet" (NYT)--the practical, the playful, and the politically correct--from BuzzFeed copy chief Emmy Favilla.
A World Without "Whom" is Eats, Shoots & Leaves for the internet age, and BuzzFeed...
by Ernst Cassirer
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
In this important study Ernst Cassirer analyzes the non-rational thought processes that go to make up culture. He demonstrates that beneath both language and myth there lies an unconscious "grammar" of experience, whose categories and canons are not those of logical thought. He shows that this prelogical...