epub |eng | 2006-09-30 | Author:Kitty Burns Florey [Florey, Kitty Burns]

There have been daring people in the world who claimed that Cooper could write English, but they are all dead now. In Paris in the 1880s, Marcel Proust was spared ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Jeremy Butterfield

epub |eng | 2008-10-09 | Author:Danesi, Marcel [Danesi, Marcel]

epub |eng | | Author:Rawdon Wyatt

REPORT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CHARITIES SUPPORT FOUNDATION (ICSF) The last year has been a particularly busy one for the ICSF. Outlined below are a few of the areas we have ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-18 | Author:Carl W. Hart

2.The police are breaking up. (the protest, it) 3.A trained technician ought to carry out. (the experiment, it) 4.The foundation gave away. (the money, it) 5.Susie always messes up. (the ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Betty Kirkpatrick

STYLE AND VOCABULARY There is, of course, more to good written English than a knowledge of correct grammar and correct usage. Style is also an important issue. Style with regard ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2016-03-29 | Author:Grant Barrett [Barrett, Grant]

8.1 Compound Nouns Sometime nouns appearing together, or even with other parts of speech, become idiomatic compound nouns, so that they travel in the language together. By idiomatic I mean ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Ed Swick

Come You’re already familiar with this verb of motion that means “to approach, to move toward, or to arrive.” Its conjugation is irregular and has these principal parts: Four distinct ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Frank L. Cioffi [Cioffi, Frank L.]

Chapter 4 Punctuation, Part I—The Comma: Promiscuous Uses Introduction: Punctuation Substitutes for Oral Emphases, Facial Expressions, and Body Language When people speak, they consciously and subconsciously use an arsenal of ...

epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:Yee-Lum Mak

KINTSUKUROI (noun, Japanese) lit. “to repair with gold”; the art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken ...

mobi |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Henschel, Astrid [Henschel, Astrid]

Change the following sentences from the passive to the active. 1. Das Auto wird jetzt von Müllers verkauft. ____________________________________________________ 2. Das Versprechen ist gebrochen worden. (Er) ____________________________________________________ 3. Das Buch ...

epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:John McWhorter [McWhorter, John]

Grammaticalization as Spectator Sport From the point of view of one language, such as our own, it will seem as if grammaticalization serves to lend a language the tools it ...

epub |eng | 2008-10-30 | Author:Rochester, Myrna Bell [Rochester, Myrna Bell]

Demonstrative Pronouns Demonstrative pronouns (in English: this one, that one, those) refer to a person, thing, or idea mentioned previously in a conversation. In French, they agree in gender and ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-18 | Author:Mark Lester

Summary Misplaced and squinting modifiers are difficult problems for all of us because we know what we meant. It is really hard to train our eyes to see not just ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Hartwell Fiske [Fiske, Robert Hartwell]

* * * Again, in U.S. Senate and House Committee hearings, the FDA conceded that the packaging and recalled drug violations were minor and posed no immanent health hazard to ...