Grammar & Punctuation

An activity-based introduction to stylistics, this textbook explains some of the topics in literary linguistics and helps students in analysing written texts. How can you tell good writing - the excellent, the brilliant and the ingenious - from bad...

Intermediate Irish is a jargon-free workbook examining the most commonly used grammatical structures within the Irish language. Focusing on the repeated use of grammatical patterns, the Grammar develops an understanding of the structures presented,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841933573Author Rosalind FergussonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning influences its syntactic behavior and develops it into a powerful tool for...

PHRASAL VERB ORGANISER is a comprehensive practice book which makes phrasal verbs easier to understand and learn. It does what its title promises: it organises this difficult but essential area of English.Reviews1. Verbs With UP 2. Verbs With DOWN 3...

The academic vocabulary covered by the series is sourced from the Academic Word List, and the Oxford Corpus of Academic English. The Corpus is an 85-million-word corpus of academic sources, developed by Oxford University Press, the world's authority on...

Never stress over a comma, colon, or dash again! The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need is the ideal resource for everyone who wants to produce writing that is clear, concise, and grammatically excellent. Whether you're creating perfect professional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996786300Author George TrombleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Learn From ZeroPublisher Learn From ZeroWeight(grams) 365g

A complete beginning-level course for written Chinese designed to teach you to read and write Chinese quickly and efficiently!The Basic Chinese series offers a complete introductory course superior to any other language product for Chinese. These books...

Readers of all levels will find this guide essential. Giving examples of real usage, this book provides the basic information about grammar and punctuation that people need on a day-to-day basis. Arranged A-Z, it contains entries for standard grammatical...

Professor Harris presents a formal theory of language structure, in which syntax is characterized as an orderly system of departures from random combinations of sounds, words, and indeed of all elements of language. He argues that the combining of words...

Mignon Fogarty, a.k.a. Grammar Girl, is determined to wipe out bad grammar - but she's also determined to make the process as painless as possible. One year ago, she created a weekly pod cast to tackle some of the most common mistakes people make while...

Enables students of biblical Hebrew to grasp the basic concepts of English grammar so that they can transfer those concepts to Hebrew.One of the biggest hurdles students encounter while learning biblical languages is that they've forgotten the English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399514330Author El Mustapha LahlaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

A concise but unusually comprehensive handbook for the students of Old French. Based on Dr Einhorn's very successful introductory lecture course for undergraduates, this book describes the phonology, morphology and syntax of standard Old French, paying...

"The Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms" provides an easy-to-use source of over 150,000 alternative and opposite words in order to improve your wordpower and communication skills, and also make your English more interesting and original. For each entry,...

Writers of any kind want readers to understand what they’re writing. Too often, however, what one writes can leave readers baffled or misled as to what they intended their audience to know. Writers Mistakes: A Handbook of Common Blunders and Ways to Mend...

Writers of any kind want readers to understand what they’re writing. Too often, however, what one writes can leave readers baffled or misled as to what they intended their audience to know. Writers Mistakes: A Handbook of Common Blunders and Ways to Mend...

Navigating English Grammar presents an engaging and insightful introduction to the structure of English. Lobeck and Denham's inquiry-based approach encourages students to discover the fundamentals of English grammar by investigating their own intuitive...

This monograph presents the first in-depth empirical and theoretical study of determiner sharing in German, addressing both its language-specific properties and its comparative syntax. Determiner sharing poses an interesting problem for syntactic theory...

Excuse Me, Your Participle's Dangling will give you all the bare essentials of grammar that you need to write like a pro. The book also offers a simple yet foolproof method of writing under pressure, the key to success in any college program or workplace...

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Many otherwise competent adults are wobbly writers, whether they're college students or already thriving in a job. They probably exhibit a "go get 'em" attitude for most of their lives, but find themselves stumped by a blank computer screen or...

This book approaches the structure of English from a form-function perspective that is both theoretical and practical. It asks learners to consider meaning, structure and use, in contrast to many grammars that focus on structure, sometimes to the...

Modern English Structures is a clear and accessible text that follows a structural approach to teaching basic English grammar. The book is divided into three parts: what a sentence constituent is, what a sentence constituent does, and where a sentence...

The Modern English Structures Workbook parallels the text, Modern English Structures, and provides useful training both in memorization and in higher-order thinking skills.Book InformationISBN 9781551117645Author Bernard O'DwyerFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Heinle's best selling grammar series now has more of what works for students and teachers! Students learn more, remember more, and use language more effectively when they learn grammar in context. Grammar in Context, Fifth Edition presents grammar in...

Even the best wordsmiths can find themselves tripping over words that are commonly misused, mixed up or misspelled. Most of us have suffered the embarrassment of suddenly discovering that they have been using or spelling a word wrong for years, or, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788026019329Author Bruce DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint Bruce DaviesPublisher Bruce DaviesWeight(grams) 620g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540443Author Samuel GhelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

The Grammar Connection series offers a basal program in Academic, Adult, and International programs. The skills it develops are useful for students planning to enroll in college-level courses, adults planning to return to college, or high school...

National Geographic Learning's best selling grammar series now has more of what works for students and teachers! Students learn more, remember more, and use language more effectively when they learn grammar in context. Grammar in Context, Fifth...

"Andrew and Evelyn Rothstein have given teachers a model for teaching the structure of our language with fun and interesting strategies that can be used at all grade levels. They show teachers how to take grammar instruction from a stand-alone subject to...

No other description available.Book InformationISBN 9781305075528Author Sandra N. ElbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CENGAGE Learning Custom PublishingPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams) 726g

The Sixth Edition of the best-selling Grammar in Context series, inspires learners through compelling stories, National Geographic images, and content, relevant to students' lives. Students learn more, remember more, and use language more effectively...

This is a newly expanded and updated edition of one of the best-selling introductions to linguistic morphology - the study and description of word formations in languages - that deals with inflection, derivation, and compounding, the system of...

Ever since Chomsky's Barriers, functional heads have been the privileged object of research in generative linguistics. But over the last two decades, two rival approaches have developed. The cartographic project, as represented by the collections in this...

Mapping the Left Periphery, the fifth volume in "The Cartography of Syntactic Structures," is entirely devoted to the functional articulation of the so-called complementizer system, the highest part of sentence structure. The papers collected...

Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and Composition of the Left Periphery uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to the left-peripheral structures of other languages. Liliane Haegeman argues...

One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. Syntactic theory has long been concerned with properties of movement, including locality restrictions. ...