Grammar category: 1029 books
Quick English Compositions
Writing Effective Paragraphs and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
The global environment demands English writing skill. QEC (Quick English Compositions) helps learners understand and practice English composition skills. Focusing on one essay type at a time, QEC can help you write better quickly, with many example patterns, focusing on the sentence level. QEC includes...
Modern Manglish
gobbledygook made plain
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
‘It’s dog eat dog in this rat race.’
‘We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.’
‘I hope to come first or second, or at least to win it.’
The information superhighway brings more text to our door than ever before. It’s just that most of it gets mangled along...
Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay
Practical Advice For The Grammatically Challenged
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
For years Richard Lederer has enthralled fans of the English language with his keen insights, commonsense advice, and witty presentation. Now Lederer has teamed up with Richard Dowis to take readers on another journey through the world's most wonderful, albeit perplexing, language. How many times...
by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Idiom is a phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be deducted from the meanings of the individual words when standing alone. Idiom is composed of two or more words which have shed off their denotative meaning and have united to give a new and profound meaning.
It is in this lucid manner...
How to Hire an Editor
The Indie Author’s Guide to Finding and Working with the Right Editor for Your Book
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2014
“The first critical step in self-publishing your book is finding a great editor. Sarah’s book will pay for itself 100 times over.” —Mark Levine, CEO of Hillcrest Media Group and author of The Fine Print of Self-Publishing
How to Hire an Editor: The Indie Author’s...
Write Better Right Now
The Reluctant Writer’s Guide to Confident Communication and Self-Assured Style
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
In almost any career, you must know how to write—even if it’s not part of your job description. But if you are a reluctant writer, producing even the simplest memo may be a struggle.
Write Better Right Now is the springboard to get you ahead in any job, passion project, or situation that...
The Queen's English
And How to Use It
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
The Queen's English shows how the English language, used properly, has great power to instruct, move and entertain people, but used incorrectly, can lead to a lack of clarity and confusion.
The Complete INDIE Editor
55 Essential Copy-edits for the Professional Independent Author
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Stay ahead of the competition with this easy to use, step-by-step guide.
When you publish as an Indie Author, be it on an electronic device such as the Kindle or as a printed novel through Createspace or other print-on-demand services, readers are evaluating your writing by using Free First...
by Robert Allen
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
The Penguin Writers' Guides series provide authoritative, succinct and easy-to-follow guidance on specific aspects of written English. Whether you need to brush up your skills or get to gris with something for the first time, these invaluable Guides will help you find the best way to get your message...
Nihongo Pera Pera
A User's Guide to Japanese Onomatopoeia
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Bridge the gap between what you learn in Japanese class and what you actually need to converse!
Onomatopeoeia—words such as "glug glug," "pow," and "splash" in English—are an integral part of the Japanese language. Japanese people draw on a wealth of onomatopoeia...
Collocation
Applications and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool. It provides a definitive survey of currently available techniques and a detailed description of their implementation.
by Michael Pace-Sigge
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The highly frequent word items TO and OF are often conceived merely as prepositions, carrying little meaning in themselves. This book disputes that notion by analysing the usage patterns found for OF and TO in different sets of text corpora.
Word Wizard
Super Bloopers, Rich Reflections, and Other Acts of Word Magic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
After a multi-decade career of stimulating readers to appreciate and laugh at the glories and oddities of our English language, beloved language maven Richard Lederer has collected his very best and most popular pieces in Word Wizard. In this career-capping anthology the reader will find essays that...
by Lenny Everson
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2011
This little guide tells you how colons and semicolons can be used and abused. It notes that "nobody’s going to hang you for a comma splice." But it does drift into the part where the rules wander into that dark borderland between logic and outright silliness. And it includes a picture from a plastic privy in Maine.