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Learn the basics of English and learn about everyday life in the UK. Here contemporary, popular English is simply and practically presented. Lots of examples are included to help you learn. The book covers many areas of everyday life. Readers are given simple exercises to do on each of the 31 days. You will grasp the basics of the English language in a month.
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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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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...
85) Taller de redacción de artículos para estudiantes universitarios: Este es un libro para leer a lápiz
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Este libro tiene como propósito convertirse en el taller de trabajo de un estudiante que, en medio de su proceso formativo, ha decidido realizar una investigación cualitativa y quiere saber cómo pre-sentar su informe mediante un artículo académico.
La obra, dirigida a estudiantes de todas las áreas disciplinares, busca ser una guía durante: el proceso de generación de la idea de investigación, su planteamiento, la selección de la tradición...
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Stan Malles and Jeff McQuain have written this brief, yet very important glossary in the spirit of E.D. Hirsch's bestselling Cultural Literacy. Here is a dictionary of basic terms for literature, composition, and grammar that every American, no matter their age, needs to know.
Perfect for home and classroom use, The Elements of English is simple to use, unintimidating to read and easy to understand. Each area of language arts is divided into its...
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Are standards of English alright-or should that be all right? To knowingly split an infinitive or not to? And what about ending a sentence with a preposition, or for that matter beginning one with "and"?
We learn language by instinct, but good English, the pedants tell us, requires rules. Yet, as Oliver Kamm cleverly demonstrates in this new book, many of the purists' prohibitions are bogus and can be cheerfully disregarded. Accidence Will Happen...
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Penned by a former writer who had to teach himself the rules of English grammar, A Few Words About Words offers an easy and accessible approach to understanding and using the English language.
In a world dominated by countless print media and social media outlets, written communication is king. Writing "your" when you mean "you're" and "there" when you mean "they're" can make the difference between getting or not getting new business. A missing comma...
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This is a classic reference for writers, editors, and anyone else who needs to work out when to use "which" or "that," when a town can be called a city, and what to do with a gerund. This third edition is being thoroughly updated to increase the Australian content, including increasing coverage of Aboriginal terms, and to reflect the digital age. Written in the fine English tradition of opinionated style advice, this is a worthy successor to Fowler....
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Siempre abiertos a los cambios dentro del sistema gramatical, con nuestra disciplina lingüística debemos lograr que la lengua sea un verdadero vehículo de comunicación. El objetivo no es memorizar un frío listado de normas, sino reflexionar sobre estas para emplear la palabra adecuada, la construcción gramatical concisa, y redactar con coherencia un escrito; una reflexión normativa que nos permita saber fundamentar la corrección de cada error....
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A brand-new edition of this classic guide on how to write with style-from The Economist's language columnist, Lane Greene.
This new edition of Writing with Style offers fresh, up-to-date insight into the principles and tools we can all deploy when it comes to expressing ourselves better when we write. The book's leaner, cleaner structure ranges widely-from grammar and punctuation to using numbers and how to edit. Economist language columnist Lane...
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Life is crazy and hectic for most of us. We're surrounded with personal and family obligations, jobs, fitness programs, virtual mountains of email, not to mention videogames, TV, smartphones, social networking, and millions of things to check out on the web.
With all those distractions, how does an aspiring author find time to write? And when you do find the time, how do you make the most of it?
Award-winning and #1 international bestselling author...
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Previously published as part of Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing.
Online sensation Grammar Girl makes punctuation fun and easy in Grammar Girl's Punctuation 911.
Mignon Fogarty, a.k.a. Grammar Girl, is determined to wipe out bad punctuation-but she's also determined to make the process as painless as possible. A couple of years ago, she created a weekly podcast to tackle some of the most common mistakes people make with grammar....
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¡Bienvenido a La divina lengua! Estás a punto de comenzar un viaje hacia las zonas más recónditas de tu propia lengua. Desde el Paraíso de la gramática perfecta y las normas de escritura, hasta el Infierno del lenguaje inclusivo y el lunfardo. En el medio, el Purgatorio, el espacio oportuno para sanar nuestras bocas sucias y elegir si ascender a Dios o tirarse de lleno al fuego. Con ingenio y humor, recorreremos las múltiples tensiones de la...
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This easy A-to-Z reference guide offers essential information on English grammar as well as practical advice on avoiding common mistakes. A thorough understanding of English grammar is essential for anyone who wishes to communicate clearly and confidently. A Concise Dictionary of Correct English offers readers a detailed overview of English usage, provided in a quick-reference alphabetical format. From the rules of "Abbreviations" and "Accents" to...
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El lenguaje es el mayor don que posee el ser humano, pues con él expresamos todo tipo de sentimientos, necesidades, opiniones y deseos, de hecho, el lenguaje es lo que nos hace ser humanos.
Este libro trata de provocar a los lectores con un viaje por las palabras del español, sus significados propios y acepciones impropias, las palabras de la infancia y las del español de América, los neologismos y los lenguajes especializados, las distintas...
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Punctuation is an aspect of language where editors and proofreaders are constantly taking decisions, no matter what type of document they're working on. But how do they decide? Gerard M-F Hill offers a reason-based approach to punctuation and its uses, to help achieve maximum clarity and consistency for the reader. The guide covers:
• what punctuation is, what it does and why we need it
• how the main punctuation marks are used in British English
• some...
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