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Vocabulary and Grammar for the TOEFL iBT (R) Test (Collins English for the TOEFL Test)
Master essential grammar, boost your vocabulary, and improve your TOEFL score! Collins Vocabulary and Grammar for the TOEFL iBT (R) Test is designed to help students master the vocabulary and...
Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching: A Description and
This widely-used book presents a clear description and analysis of the major approaches and methods used in second and foreign language teaching. Methods and approaches covered include: grammar translation, the...
The Joy Of English: 100 Illuminating Conversations about the English
This is a pencil-sharp book about English for anyone who ever needs to write. In an easy-to-read style, it offers accessible and constructive advice to help you improve your English...
English Syntax
An authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who have had no prior coursework in syntactic theory.English Syntax is an authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who...
Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013
A new collection of essays from the world's most influential political thinker In this collection of essays from 1969-2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky exposes...
Shakespeare's Language
"Every so often there is a rebellion against the assumption that Shakespeare is a uniquely great writer. This feeling, strong at the moment, has vociferous supporters in the academics, teachers...
English Grammar: Understanding the Basics
Looking for an easy-to-use guide to English grammar? This handy introduction covers all the basics of the subject, using a simple and straightforward style. Students will find the book's step-by-step...
The English Languages
Hundreds of millions of people use English every day everywhere in the world, but may or may not succeed in understanding each other. Despite the success of its standard form...
Studying English Literature: A Practical Guide
Studying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing so. Unlike books that provide a survey...
Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers: The Role of
At a time when knowledge is being 're-valued' as central to curriculum concerns, subject English is being called to account. Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers puts long-standing...
Analyzing English: An Introduction To Descriptive Linguistics
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA foundational academic text in descriptive linguistics, Analyzing English: An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics...
The Stories of English
The fabulous paperback for all fans of Bill Bryson and Melvyn Bragg. When and why did 'thou' disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said 'observation' or 'hobservation'?...
The New Fowler's Modern English Usage
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Author: H. W. FowlerBinding: PaperbackPublished: CLARENDON PRESS OXFORD, 1996Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis seminal work, The New Fowler's Modern English Usage,...
Stellar English: A Down-to-Earth Guide to Grammar and Style
An indispensable guide to essential principles of English grammar and usage. Stellar English lays out the fundamentals of effective writing, from word choice and punctuation to parts of speech and...
Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel
"Writing Chicago" uncovers the deep connections between the renowned Chicago school of sociology - exemplified by William Thomas, Robert Park and Robert Redfield - and the great Chicago novelists of...
Fluency In English: An Integrated Course For Advanced Students
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFluency in English by L. G. Alexander stands as a cornerstone of advanced English language instruction, designed specifically...
English Grammar Essentials For Dummies - Australia
The fun and easy way to learn essential grammar rules, common usage errors, and other key concepts in the English language Understanding the rules of English is key to being...
The Emergence of Standard English
Language scholars have traditionally agreed that the development of the English language was largely unplanned. John H. Fisher challenges this view, demonstrating that the standardization of writing and pronunciation was,...
A-Z of English Grammar & Usage New Edition
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In a completely thoroughly edition of 'An A-Z of English Grammar and Usage' - an established favourite among teachers - Geoffrey leech and his colleagues provide teachers and learners of...
Modern English Structure
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A cornerstone of English linguistic study, Modern English Structure by...
The Linguistic Moment: From Wordsworth to Stevens
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This series of readings, explores the functioning of moments in poems when the medium--language--becomes an issue. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to...
Unlocking the English Language
At a time when many people fear that the English language is entering a period of serious decline, the author of this book takes a more optimistic view. He believes...
McCarthy's Field Guide to Grammar: Natural English Usage and Style
You ain't gonna like it: bad grammar's not so bad. - The Times Remember all those grammar rules from school? No? Most of us don't. Mike McCarthy, renowned corpus linguist...
That's The Way It Crumbles: The American Conquest of the English
Are we tired of hearing that fall is a season, sick of being offered fries and told about the latest movie? Yeah. Have we noticed the sly interpolation of Americanisms...
English People: Experience of Teaching and Learning English in British
"English People" is a portrait of the subject "English" as it is experienced by teachers and students in British higher education. The author has interviewed staff and students in the...
I Used to Know That: English
Author: Patrick Scrivenor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Relearn the essential rules of the English language, from grammar and punctuation to sentence construction. Also includes parts of speech and...
The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Literature in English
Derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, the present volume is an A-Z reference work containing over 4,200 entries covering the full range of literature in English...
The King's English: And How to Use It
Constantly confused by the difference between adjectives and adverbs? Still can't figure out how to use a semi-colon? Or simply want to refresh the English language knowledge you learnt from...
Macquarie Writer's Friend: A Guide to Grammar and Usage
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Essays In Criticism (First Series)
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMatthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism (First Series) stands as one of the most influential works of...
Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare
This collection of essays includes some of the most recent work of a master critic at the height of his powers. Of the fourteen essays, written from the late 1970's...
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style: The
An indispensable, New York Times-bestselling guide to the craft of writing from Random House's long-time copy chief and one of Twitter's leading language gurus. 'An utterly delightful book to read,...
Troublesome Words
A fresh new look for Bill Bryson's indispensable word companion What is the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do...
Shakespearean Tragedy
A.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become "real" at all' writes John Bayley in his...
The Written Poem: Semiotic Conventions from Old to Modern English
This text discusses the visual and graphic conventions in contemporary poetry in English. It defines contemporary poetry and its historical construction as a "seen object" and uses literary and social...
Professing Poetry
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of criticism and celebration, Professing Poetry stands as one of the most candid and illuminating...
The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad's centrality to modern literature is well established. The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad provides essential guidance to varied developments in the field of Conrad studies since the...
The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams - [...]
The phenomenal international bestseller - with over 8 million copies sold.What legacy would you choose to leave behind for your children?When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon,...
German Dictionary and Grammar: Two books in one
The home of trusted German dictionaries for everyday language learning An up-to-date easy-reference German to English and English to German Collins dictionary and a user-friendly grammar guide in one handy...
Literary Lives
John Sutherland has picked out over 100 biographies from the "Dictionary of National Biography" to create this lively anthology of a selection of the most prominent figures in British 20th-century...
Four Absentees
THE NOVELIST REMEMBERS HIS FRIENDS - GEORGE ORWELL, DYLAN THOMAS, ERIC GILL (ROMAN CATHOLIC EROTOMANE AND SCULPTOR) AND J MIDDLETON MURRY (BIOGRAPHER, PUBLISHER AND HUSBAND OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD - AMONGST...