This isn't just another history of English or a catalogue of etymologies. It explores some of the most obvious but unusual features of English, which are also some of the least understood by many of its speakers. These include: - If she works, why not she cans or she mights? - Why do patterns like drive, drove, driven exist? - Where did the l in could come from? - Why don't we pronounce ght in words like eight and bought? - How can be, is, and was all be parts of one verb? - If goose, why gander? - If see, why saw? - Why does one sound like it starts with w? Drawing on sources as diverse as Sanskrit grammatical treatises, the Bible in six ancient languages, an Anglo-Saxon monk's survey of whelk-farming, Middle English allegory, Winston Churchill's memoirs, and the lyrics of reggae legend Lee Scratch Perry, If Houses, Why Not Mouses? is for anyone interested in language, and serves as an introduction to historical linguistics.
EllRay Jakes finally grows up (a little) by playing basketball in this ninth book in the series. There's a new game in town—basketball! Or in Ellray's case, pre-basketball. Coach Havens has all the third graders dribbling, passing, and shooting, and he's quick to compliment EllRay's skills. No one else seems to notice them, however, and as 'the shortest kid in the class,' EllRay is still chosen last for teams at recess. What's a short guy gotta do to get noticed?? When EllRay comes up with a plan that involves the off-limits teacher's lounge, everyone does a double take! PRAISE FOR THE ELLRAY JAKES SERIES: "Warner is a dead-on observer of playground politics, and has a great ear for dialogue."—School Library Journal on EllRay Jakes Is Not a Chicken! "...ideal for reluctant readers."—Booklist on EllRay Jakes Is Not a Chicken! "Young readers can identify with EllRay, who is neither a bad seed nor a goody-two-shoes; he and his sense of humor are just right."—Kirkus on EllRay Jakes Is a Rock Star! "The EllRay Jakes stories are just right for his real-life peers."—Kirkus on EllRay Jakes Walks the Plank
Following the sensational success of Pancardi's Pride (the first novel by Ron Clooney) he asks us to step onto his roller-coaster ride once again. Hold onto your hat and sanity as this tale twists your imagination and stomach into knots.
Grammar Choices is a different kind of grammar book: It is written for graduate students, including MBA, master’s, and doctoral candidates, as well as postdoctoral researchers and faculty. Additionally, it describes the language of advanced academic writing with more than 300 real examples from successful graduate students and from published texts, including corpora. Each of the eight units in Grammar Choices contains: an overview of the grammar topic; a preview test that allows students to assess their control of the target grammar and teachers to diagnose areas of difficulty; an authentic example of graduate-student writing showing the unit grammar in use; clear descriptions of essential grammar structures using the framework of functional grammar, cutting-edge research in applied linguistics, and corpus studies; vocabulary relevant to the grammar point is introduced—for example, common verbs in the passive voice, summary nouns used with this/these, and irregular plural nouns; authentic examples for every grammar point from corpora and published texts; exercises for every grammar point that help writers develop grammatical awareness and use, including completing sentences, writing, revising, paraphrasing, and editing; and a section inviting writers to investigate discipline-specific language use and apply it to an academic genre. Among the changes in the Second Edition are: new sections on parallel form (Unit 2) and possessives (Unit 5) revised and expanded explanations, but particularly regarding verb complementation, complement noun clauses, passive voice, and stance/engagement a restructured Unit 2 and significantly revised/updated Unit 7 new Grammar Awareness tasks in Units 3, 5, and 6 new exercises plus revision/updating of many others self-editing checklists in the Grammar in Your Discipline sections at the end of each unit representation of additional academic disciplines (e.g., engineering, management) in example sentences and texts and in exercises.
Those fable stories are funny, komic and comical and you will need a chair, yon chèz pou chita, to sit down when the story will make you laugh, lè li pwal fè ou ri for you not to fall down, pou ou pa tombé. The story takes place in the beautiful country of Haiti. It has talking animals and cunning fox, cunning rat, cunning hyena, and a cunning mischievous little boy who is mischievous like the boy who cried wolf story and the people in his town will teach him a lesson for him to stop cunning be mischievous and trick them. It has black royalties like black Haitian queens, empresses, and princesses, and beautiful dark skin women with drop-dead beauties that make all God's creations falling in love with their grand beauty and wonderful personalities. those dark skin women are the prettiest creations of all. The dark skin women in the story are strong, fierce, the greatest fighters of all that no males can beat, and the dark- skin women in the fable are feminine, coquettish, and elegant. The black empresses and the queens always protect their beautiful kingdom empire Haiti from their enemies. It also has the black version of the three little pigs and the bad wolf which is a black manman sheep beating and protecting her ten little black lambs kids and her from a bad cunning hyena who wants to eat them. it also has talking elegant mouses and one of them a female black mouse that will help a black female cat know a riddle answer in exchange for her mouses and her freedom. It also talks about a lazy plow horse who won't work for his mistress who is the most beautiful woman in the world, and the plow horse is being lazy all day and will get his act together after he heard his mistress is going to sell him to a man that will make him work harder and will make him do harsh labors and won't tolerate his laziness. The story also will help convey morals for black-skinned women and little girls that will help them throughout their lives how to observe better their surroundings and make choices that will be beneficial for them.
