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This book examines nouns and pronouns, explaining what they are and how they are used. The text is accompanied by bright, colorful sentence diagrams designed to clarify basic grammatical concepts, while engaging photographs and eye-catching illustrations make the book visually appealing to young readers.
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This book examines punctuation, explaining what it is and how it is used. The text is accompanied by bright, colorful sentence diagrams designed to clarify basic grammatical concepts, while engaging photographs and eye-catching illustrations make the book visually appealing to young readers.
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This book examines sentences, explaining what they are, how they are used, and how we put them together. The text is accompanied by bright, colorful sentence diagrams designed to clarify basic grammatical concepts, while engaging photographs and eye-catching illustrations make the book visually appealing to young readers.
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These are interesting times for word nerds. We ate, shot and left, bonding over a joke about a panda and some rants about greengrocers who abuse apostrophes. We can go on Facebook and vow to judge people when they use poor grammar.
Could you care less? Does bad grammar or usage "literally" make your head explode? Test your need for this new book with these sentences:
"Katrina misplaced many residents of New Orleans from their homes."
"Sherry finally...
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The Collins COBUILD Active English Grammar offers intermediate learners of English a quick and easy-to-use reference guide to the most important points in English Grammar.
Illustrated by thousands of examples from the Bank of English, the Collins COBUILD Active English Grammar contains easy-to-understand explanations of the important points of English grammar. Warning notes occur throughout the text, giving learners invaluable help with potential...
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Notas a la Gramática de la lengua castellana de don Andrés Bello. Rufino José Cuervo
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Habiendo llegado a mis manos varias reimpresiones chilenas de la última edición de la Gramática de don Andrés Bello, que contiene notables variaciones y es generalmente desconocida entre nosotros, propuse a los señores Echeverría Hermanos hiciesen una reproducción de ella agregándole algunas notas mías y un índice alfabético que...
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Ce livre est une grammaire pédagogique destinée aux étudiants universitaires et, de façon plus large, à des adultes qui étudient le français, langue seconde. Chaque concept grammatical est expliqué de manière simple et concise, et est illustré par plusieurs exemples. Ces explications sont suivies de « mises en pratique » permettant aux apprenants de consolider l'apprentissage des concepts en s'entraînant à les repérer et à les utiliser...
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¿De dónde diablos salió la ñ? ¿Hablaba Lope de Vega japonés? ¿'Yerno' viene de 'infierno'? ¿Qué tienen en común el maestro Yoda y el Marqués de Santillana? ¿Sabías que en la Edad Media se abreviaba mucho + q hoy?
Una lengua muy muy larga contiene más de cien historias para leer de un tirón o poco a poco, en orden o en desorden, que constituyen la forma más divertida de acercarse al pasado y presente del español, una lengua tan larga...
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Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, a dash is something you make for the bathroom, and a colon and semicolon are large and small intestines? If so, language humorists Richard Lederer and John Shore (with the sprightly aid of illustrator Jim McLean), have written the perfect book to help make your written words perfectly precise and punctuationally...
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When Robert Graves and Alan Hodge decided to collaborate on this manual for writers, the world was in total upheaval. Graves had fled Majorca three years earlier at the start of the Spanish Civil War, and as they labored over their new project, they witnessed the fall of France and the evacuation of Allied forces at Dunkirk. Soon the horror of World War II would reach British soil as well, as the Luftwaffe began bombing London in an effort to destroy...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016" Frank L. Cioffi is professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York, and has taught writing at Princeton and Indiana universities and at Bard and Scripps colleges. He is the author of The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers (Princeton), among other books.
A one-of-a-kind handbook that uses a day in the life of written English to illustrate the benefits...
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