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Author: Robert Lawrence Trask
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a succinct guide to the grammatical laws and idiosyncrasmies that govern the English language. It focuses on current usage.
Author: R.L. Trask
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1134884206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis dictionary of grammatical terms covers both current and traditional terminology in syntax and morphology. It includes descriptive terms, the major theoretical concepts of the most influential grammatical frameworks, and the chief terms from mathematical and computational linguistics. It contains over 1500 entries, providing definitions and examples, pronunciations, the earliest sources of terms and suggestions for further reading, and recommendations about competing and conflicting usages. The book focuses on non-theory-boumd descriptive terms, which are likely to remain current for some years. Aimed at students and teachers of linguistics, it allows a reader puzzled by a grammatical term to look it up and locate further reading with ease.
Author: Paul W. Lovinger
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9780142000465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures more than one thousand primary entries, along with more than two thousand examples of questionable style and the misuse of language, providing valuable lessons for students, writers, and speakers.
Author: R L Trask
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2019-06-13
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0141991585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Penguin Guide to Punctuation is indispensable for anyone who needs to get to grips with using punctuation in their written work. Whether you are puzzled by colons and semicolons, unsure of where commas should go or baffled by apostrophes, this jargon-free, succinct guide is for you.
Author: Market House Books Ltd
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780140514254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 2nd revised edition aids writers who need a quick and easy spell-check. Not only does it show how to spell virtually every word likely to encountered, but it highlights common areas of confusion and traps for the unwary. It gives recommended hyphenation, British/American spellings, and includes many proper names - places and people.
Author: Robert Allen
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2008-08-07
Total Pages: 832
ISBN-13: 0141917687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAllen’s Dictionary of English Phrases is the most comprehensive survey of this area of the English language ever undertaken. Taking over 6000 phrases, it explains their meaning, explores their development and gives citations that range from the Venerable Bede to Will Self. Crisply and wittily written, the book is packed with memorable and surprising detail, whether showing that 'salad days' comes from Antony and Cleopatra, that 'flavour of the month' originates in 1940s American ice cream marketing, or even that we’ve been 'calling a spade a spade' since the sixteenth century. Allen’s Dictionary of English Phrases is part of the Penguin Reference Library and draws on over 70 years of experience in bringing reliable, useful and clear information to millions of readers around the world – making knowledge everybody’s property.
Author: Daphne M. Gulland
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 305
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Allen
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2005-06-30
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0141941359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Penguin Writers' Guides series provides authoritative, succinct and easy-to-follow guidance on specific aspects of written English. Whether you need to brush up your skills or get to grips with something for the first time, these invaluable Guides will help you find the best way to get your message across clearly and effectively. This essential guide covers the key rules - and pitfalls - of written and spoken grammar. It covers such areas as: the building blocks of language, common errors and misconceptions, choosing the right level of expression, differences between British and American English, and political correctness. It also discusses various uses of language, from creative writing, CVs and reports to verbal presentations, and business and personal letters, with many useful suggestions for accurate and fluent English.
Author: Rosalind Fergusson
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompiles approximately 6,000 different proverbs organized by thematic headings such as beauty, love, or weather.
Author: Kenneth Katzner
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 1994-12-07
Total Pages: 1124
ISBN-13: 0471017078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on American rather than British English, this is among the first Russian dictionaries revised for the post-Soviet era. Includes new political terminology, new Russian institutions, new countries and republics and new city names. Contains 26,000 entries in the English-Russian section and 40,000 words in the Russian-English section. Irregularities in Russian declensions and conjugations appear at the beginning of each entry.
