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With over 10 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading! The ability to put thoughts into writing is an essential skill vital to success in school—from elementary school through college. Bestselling author Dan Gutman helps kids master this important skill with his fun, informative writing guide, My Weird Writing Tips.
Dan offers tricks for spelling hard words, understanding the difference between similar
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"Comma Sense is a guide to all things grammar. Become an expert on capitalization and punctuation, subjects and predicates, contractions and possessives, and much more ... Professional writers, high schoolers, ESL students, entrepreneurs, and editors alike can benefit from learning (or relearning) the rules for apostrophes and em dashes, parentheticals and parallelism, and diction and logic. After every easy-to-read chapter, you can practice your...
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Need to brush up on your grammar pronto? This easy-to-use guide gives you simple strategies for understanding the rules of grammar and punctuation to improve you speaking and writing skills and communicate accurately and effectively. From making peace bertween subjects and verbs to using commas and apostrophes correctly, you'll get all the tricks of the grammar trade to perfect your writing and English know-how in no time!
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"The triumphant concluding volume in David Crystal's classic trilogy on the English language combines the first history of English punctuation with a complete guide on how to use it. Behind every punctuation mark lies a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities. For a system of a few dozen marks it generates a disproportionate degree of uncertainty and passion,...
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Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. Between You & Me features Norris's laugh-out-loud descriptions of some of the most common and vexing problems in spelling, punctuation, and usage comma...
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"A kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English, from linguist and veteran professor Anne Curzan. Our use of language naturally evolves and is a living, breathing thing that reflects who we are. Says Who? offers clear, nuanced guidance that goes beyond "right" and "wrong" to empower us to make informed language choices. Never snooty or scoldy...
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Midnight Louie mysteries volume 1
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A Public Relations freelancer in Las Vegas and her eighteen-pound tomcat encounter a dead publisher and the theft of two short-eared cats from ABA exhibit hall in a Baker & Taylor exhibit booth.
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"Is it good or well? There, their, or they're? Some people don't have to think twice about using proper English, but for the rest of us it can get tricky and confusing. Whether you're writing or speaking, it's all too easy to fall prey to simple mistakes that will represent you in a less-than-desirable light--which can potentially cost you a job or put you in an embarrassing social situation. Avoiding complicated grammar rules, Basic English For Dummies...
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