Download or read book English Book illustration of To day written by Rose Esther Dorothea Sketchley and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Day in the Life of the English Language written by Frank L. Cioffi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-of-a-kind handbook that uses a day in the life of written English to illustrate the benefits of effective grammar Generations of student writers have been subjected to usage handbooks that proclaim, "This is the correct form. Learn it"—books that lay out a grammar, but don't inspire students to use it. By contrast, this antihandbook handbook, presenting some three hundred sentences drawn from the printed works of a single, typical day in the life of the language—December 29, 2008—tries to persuade readers that good grammar and usage matter. Using real-world sentences rather than invented ones, One Day in the Life of the English Language gives students the motivation to apply grammatical principles correctly and efficiently. Frank Cioffi argues that proper form undergirds effective communication and ultimately even makes society work more smoothly, while nonstandard English often marginalizes or stigmatizes a writer. He emphasizes the evolving nature of English usage and debunks some cherished but flawed grammar precepts. Is it acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition? It is. Can you start a sentence with a conjunction? You can. OK to split an infinitive? No problem. A grammar and usage handbook like no other, One Day in the Life of the English Language features accessible chapters divided into "Fundamentals," "Fine Tuning," and "Deep Focus," allowing readers to select a level most suited to their needs. It also includes a glossary, a teachers' guide, and a section refuting some myths about digital-age English.
Download or read book English U S A Every Day written by Gilda Martinez-Alba and published by Barrons Educational Services. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. A fun ESL guide to American culture and language English USA Every Day helps familiarize immigrants and ESL learners with American culture and language in a fun, lighthearted way. Readers will learn about everything from finding a job and locating an organic grocery store to facts about American culture and enjoying the night life. Each chapter includes new vocabulary and idioms that are common in the U.S.A., as well as fun activities such as true or false questions, crosswords, matching games, "Write It Down," "Stop and Think," "Story Time," and more that help reinforce the lessons. There are also 2--4 dialogues in each chapter that show how people speak conversationally, with new vocabulary and idioms to learn and practice. Accompanying audio for each dialogue helps listeners learn how to speak just like Americans. An answer key is included at the back of the book.
Download or read book Oxford English Dictionary written by John A. Simpson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.
Download or read book Another Word A Day written by Anu Garg and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smorgasbord of surprising, obscure, and exotic words In this delightful encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Anu Garg, the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (wordsmith.org), presents an all-new collection of unusual, intriguing words and real-life anecdotes that will thrill writers, scholars, and word buffs everywhere. Another Word A Day celebrates the English language in all its quirkiness, grandeur, and fun, and features new chapters ranging from "Words Formed Erroneously" and "Red-Herring Words" to "Kangaroo Words," "Discover the Theme," and "What Does That Company Name Mean?" In them, you'll find a treasure trove of curious and compelling words, including agelast, dragoman, mittimus, nyctalopia, quacksalver, scission, tattersall, and zugzwang. Each entry includes a concise definition, etymology, and usage example, interspersed with illuminating quotations. Praise for a word a day "Anu Garg's many readers await their A Word A Day rations hungrily. Now at last here's a feast for them and other verbivores. Eat up!" --Barbara Wallraff, Senior Editor at The Atlantic Monthly and author of Word Court "AWADies will be familiar with Anu Garg's refreshing approach to words: words are fun and they have fascinating histories." --John Simpson, Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary
Download or read book A Word A Day written by Anu Garg and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anu Garg's many readers await their A Word A Day rations hungrily. Now at last here's a feast for them and other verbivores. Eat up!" -Barbara Wallraff Senior Editor at The Atlantic Monthly and author of Word Court Praise for A Word a Day "AWADies will be familiar with Anu Garg's refreshing approach to words: words are fun and they have fascinating histories. The people who use them have curious stories to tell too, and this collection incorporates some of the correspondence received by the editors at the AWAD site, from advice on how to outsmart your opponent in a duel (or even a truel) to a cluster of your favorite mondegreens." -John Simpson, Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary "A banquet of words! Feast and be nourished!" -Richard Lederer, author of The Miracle of Language Written by the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (www.wordsmith.org), this collection of unusual, obscure, and exotic English words will delight writers, scholars, crossword puzzlers, and word buffs of every ilk. The words are grouped in intriguing categories that range from "Portmanteaux" to "Words That Make the Spell-Checker Ineffective." each entry includes a concise definition, etymology, and usage example-and many feature fascinating and hilarious commentaries by A Word A Day subscribers and the authors.
Download or read book Scientific English written by Robert A. Day and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining and highly readable book gives anyone writing in the sciences a clear and easy-to-follow guide to the English language. English is often regarded as one of the most difficult languages to master. Yet while the English language has a vocabulary of upwards of 500,000 words, it only uses nine parts of speech, and all of these words fall into one (or more) of those nine categories. Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals, Third Edition contains many simple revelations like this that make effective scientific writing in English easy, even for those whose fluency is in another language. The book is organized around a basic guide to English grammar that is specifically tailored to the needs of scientists, science writers, science educators, and science students. The authors explain the goals of scientific writing, the role of style, and the various kinds of writing in the sciences, then provide a basic guide to the fundamentals of English and address problem areas such as redundancies, abbreviations and acronyms, jargon, and foreign terms. Email, online publishing, blogs, and writing for the Web are covered as well. This book is designed to be an enlightening and entertaining read that can then be retained as a practical scientific writing reference guide.
Download or read book Better English Every Day written by Paul J. Hamel and published by Better English Every Day. This book was released on 1984 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BETTER ENGLISH EVERY DAY is a three-book series for adult students of English as a Second Language. It presents the grammar, vocabulary and survival skills required in a basic ESL program. In addition, it supplies students with ample opportunity to practice the four language skills in the context of interesting and varied activities. Lessons carefully integrate survival topics, grammatical structures and vocabulary to present practical and meaningful activities for the students.
Download or read book Personal Pronouns in Present Day English written by Katie Wales and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive book-length analysis of personal pronouns in present-day English.
Download or read book The Verb System of Present Day American English written by and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Day by Day written by Michael Roddy and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book for those who want to learn English, stressing basic skills in real life situations.
Download or read book English U S A Every Day With Audio written by Gilda Martinez-Alba and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun ESL guide to American culture and language. English USA Every Day helps familiarize immigrants and ESL learners with American culture and language in a fun, lighthearted way. Readers will learn about everything from finding a job and locating an organic grocery store to facts about American culture and enjoying the night life. Each chapter includes new vocabulary and idioms that are common in the U.S.A., as well as fun activities such as true or false questions, crosswords, matching games, "Write It Down," "Stop and Think," "Story Time," and more that help reinforce the lessons. There are also 2—4 dialogues in each chapter that show how people speak conversationally, with new vocabulary and idioms to learn and practice. Click on the dialogue box (i.e. Dialogue 2) to hear the audio. You can then minimize the audio progression screen and go back to reading the dialogue while you listen to it. An answer key is included at the back of the eBook.
Download or read book Este es el d a This Is the Day Bilingual written by Amy Parker and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational message of hope and joy based on Psalm 118:24 from bestselling author Amy Parker in a Spanish edition! Every day is a day to celebrate and find hope in this colorful BILINGUAL storybook inspired by Psalm 118:24. With joyous rhymes in Spanish and English and colorful illustrations of all kinds of children, find the beauty and wonder of every moment of the day -- and learn that you can make the world even more glorious, too! A jubilant, inspirational reminder to seize the opportunities of the day that God has made just for us by bestselling author Amy Parker and illustrator Leeza Hernandez.Cada dia es un dia para celebrar en este original libro BILINGUE inspirado en el Salmo 118:24. Encuentre la belleza en cada momento del dia y aprenda que tambien puede hacer el mundo aun mas glorioso. Con un texto alegre en espanol e ingles y coloridas ilustraciones que celebran la diversidad, el libro nos anima a aprovechar las oportunidades del dia que Dios ha hecho solo para nosotros. Escrito por la popular autora Amy Parker e ilustrado por Leeza Hernandez.
Download or read book The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History written by William E. Engel and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first book to demonstrate how mnemotechnical cultural commonplaces can be used to account for the look, style, and authorized content of some of the most influential books produced in early modern Britain. In his hybrid role as stationer, publisher, entrepreneur, and author, John Day, master printer of England's Reformation, produced the premier navigation handbook, state-approved catechism and metrical psalms, Book of Martyrs, England's first printed emblem book, and Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book. By virtue of finely honed book trade skills, dogged commitment to evangelical nation-building, and astute business acumen (including going after those who infringed his privileges), Day mobilized the typographical imaginary to establish what amounts to-and still remains-a potent and viable Protestant Memory Art"--
Download or read book A Grammar of Present day English written by R. W. Pence and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Order of the Day written by Éric Vuillard and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Boston Globe, and Literary Hub Winner of the 2017 Goncourt Prize, this behind-the-scenes account of the manipulation, hubris, and greed that together led to Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria brilliantly dismantles the myth of an effortless victory and offers a dire warning for our current political crisis. February 20, 1933, an unremarkable day during a harsh Berlin winter: A meeting of twenty-four German captains of industry and senior Nazi officials is being held in secret in the plush lounge of the Reichstag. They are there to extract funds for the accession to power of the National Socialist Party and its Chancellor. This opening scene sets a tone of consent that will lead to the worst possible repercussions. March 12, 1938, the annexation of Austria is on the agenda: A grotesque day intended to make history—the newsreels capture a motorized army on the move, a terrible, inexorable power. But behind Goebbels’s splendid propaganda, an ersatz Blitzkrieg unfolds, the Panzers breaking down en masse on the roads into Austria. The true behind-the-scenes account of the Anschluss—a patchwork of minor flourishes of strength and fine words, fevered telephone calls, and vulgar threats—all reveal a starkly different picture. It is not strength of character or the determination of a people that wins the day, but rather a combination of intimidation and bluff. With this vivid, compelling history, Éric Vuillard warns against the peril of willfully blind acquiescence, and offers a reminder that, ultimately, the worst is not inescapable.
Download or read book Scientific English written by Robert A. Day and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes the functions and proper use of the nine parts of speech, four main types of phrases, two types of clauses, and punctuation. Day also covers voice, person and tense; redundancies and jargon; abbreviations and acronyms; and language sensitivities, all in his refreshingly literate and humorous style.
