Grammar & Punctuation

The ultimate test of grammar rules - the grammar book serialised in the Times feature 'Grammar for Grown-ups'.About the AuthorJohn Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus, UCL, is the author of over 30 works of scholarship and writes, regularly,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113324Author June CasagrandeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 179mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643241593Author Logophilia EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm)...

Learn to dot your I's and cross your T's with this hands-on grammar practice The rules of grammar can seem abstract and confusing. But putting them into practice will help you understand and retain grammatical conventions. In Grammar: 1001 Practice...

Making New Words provides a detailed study of the 200 or so prefixes and suffixes which create new words in today's English. Alongside a systematic discussion of these forms, Professor Dixon explores and explains the hundreds of conundrums that seem to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636408972Author Manikantan SuFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint White Falcon PublishingPublisher White Falcon PublishingWeight(grams)...

In a new collection of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's columns, the author examines and comments on language trends while tracing the origins of timely words and phrases in pieces that discuss such topics as technology, entertaining, and everyday...

This textbook familiarizes students with grammatical concepts of the English language and develops skills to apply grammar to creative writing and the study of literature. Students take an interactive 'learn-by-doing' approach to the mechanics of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312330804Author Mark DunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 213g

Using sentence diagraming, Grammar by Diagram explains how ten basic sentence patterns can be expanded into more complex sentences, and how verbals can provide further versatility. The third edition includes more exercises at the foundational level, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782017152897Author HACHETTE FRANCAIS LANGUE ETRANGEREFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint HachettePublisher HachetteWeight(grams) 480g

The book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). It provides a critical and practical guide to computational techniques for handling morphological and syntactic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954874049Author Paul GeorgiouFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Panarc International LtdPublisher Panarc International Ltd

This book is a reference grammar to support any modern Standard Arabic course. It is particularly useful for those students starting out in the study of Arabic. Each chapter makes the fewest possible assumptions about the student's knowledge, aiming...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789937572286Author Tony DuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Padma Karpo Translation CommitteePublisher Padma Karpo Translation CommitteeWeight(grams)...

The quadriliteral verbs in Arabic established a system, which compared to the triliteral verbs, add a new dimension and flexibility to the speakers of Arabic and facilitate meeting the daily demands of modern era for new modes of expression. The basic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867093759Author Constance WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Boynton/Cook Publishers Inc USPublisher Heinemann USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991167456Author Arlene MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Bigwords101Publisher Bigwords101Weight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061132209Author Lecturer in Linguistics R L TraskFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

Radical Construction Grammar presents a profound critique of syntactic theory and argumentation, and offers a genuinely new approach to syntax based on the fact of grammatical diversity. Recent syntactic theories are essentially formal models for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780134276250Author Betty AzarFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Pearson Education (US)Publisher Pearson Education (US)Weight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767920780Author Ben YagodaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A Division of...

Deeply embedded in the history of Latin Europe, the vernacular ("the language of slaves") still draws us towards urgent issues of affiliation, identity, and cultural struggle. Vernacular politics in medieval Latin Europe were richly complex and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949074918Author Giacomo GiammatteoFormat HardbackPage Count 908Imprint Inferno Publishing CompanyPublisher Inferno Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

This collection of nine original syntactic studies carried out within the framework for syntactic theory and description known as Relational Grammar provides a state-of-the-art survey of this and allied fields. In relational theory, grammatical relations...

The two volume set Continuing Discourse on Language offers the reader a selective account of the evolution of important aspects of Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics over the last couple of decades. The range of topics covered includes not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786185554514Author Chiara LibertiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Ornimi EditionsPublisher Ornimi EditionsWeight(grams) 539g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788861828612Author Chiara CodatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Alma EdizioniPublisher Alma EdizioniWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786185554088Author Simona ConsolazioneFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Ornimi EditionsPublisher Ornimi EditionsWeight(grams) 827g

This book offers a long-awaited unified and precise treatise on construction-based grammar. The approach to grammar presented here is the union of Berkeley Construction Grammar, as represented by the early work of Charles J. Fillmore and Paul Kay, with...

If there’s a domain in linguistics which complexity calls for ever further research, it’s clearly that of tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, often referred to as ‘TAME’. The reason for which these domains of investigation have been connected so...

The Contributors to this volume offer a broad range of novel insights about data-based or data-driven approaches to the study of both structure and function of language, reflecting the increasing shift towards corpus-based methods of analysis in a wide...

This book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment of the English progressive from Old English to Present-day English, focusing on the crucial phase of its grammaticalization between the 17th and 20th centuries. It uses data from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781422375716Author George CardonaFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

It's never too late to brush up on your writing skills!Writing is a daily part of adult life, but many people are uncertain about basic rules and conventions. Do I need a comma before this clause? What exactly is a prepositional phrase? Is it ever...

This book is aimed at fellow practitioners and researchers in functional linguistics. It offers a friendly but critical appraisal of a major component of the 'standard' version of SFL, i.e. the account given by Halliday and Matthiessen of tense and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845533960Author Robin FawcettFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845533540Author Carl BacheFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 1g

This book takes apart and problematises the whole process of identifying and explaining the patterning of words in sentences. It brings together two concepts - syntax and text - that are normally treated separately, and shows how they can best be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845531478Author Edward McDonaldFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 1g