Words, Language & Grammar
epub |eng | 2011-11-28 | Author:Mother Tongue [Tongue, Mother]

GOOD ENGLISH AND BAD CONSIDER THE PARTS OF SPEECH. IN Latin, the verb has up to 120 inflections. In English it never has more than five (e.g., see, sees, saw, ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar March 8,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Ostler, Nicholas [Ostler, Nicholas]

Suns can set and can come back again: For us when once the short light has set There is one night perpetual to be slept. Catullus * See Chapter 13. ...
( Category: Linguistics March 8,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-31 | Author:Stirling, Bruce [Stirling, Bruce]

a. to frustrate b. to organize c. to conclude d. to coalesce 9. conviction (n) a. strong conflict b. strong contract c. strong fear d. strong belief 10. cynic (adj) ...
( Category: Vocabulary March 7,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-07-08 | Author:Fogarty, Mignon [Fogarty, Mignon]

ELLIPSES: MY THOUGHTS ARE TRAILING OFF . . . The Omission Ellipsis The most common and formal use of ellipses is to indicate an omission. If you’re quoting someone and ...
( Category: Writing Skills March 6,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Fogarty, Mignon [Fogarty, Mignon]

The ballet [Manon Lescaut ] is a superb showcase for its two leads, but also shows the acting skills of the entire company as a whole in its evocation of ...
( Category: Vocabulary March 6,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-02 | Author:Mignon Fogarty [Fogarty, Mignon]

Have got has been used in English for centuries and is considered fully standard by most modern usage guides. What Should You Do? Use have got to without fear when ...
( Category: Vocabulary March 6,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Fogarty, Mignon [Fogarty, Mignon]

Laconic From the Greek Lakōn, the name of a region near ancient Sparta. Laconians were known for their terse speech. The most famous example is the Laconian reply to Philip ...
( Category: Word Lists March 6,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Fogarty, Mignon [Fogarty, Mignon]

QUICK AND DIRTY TIP Remember the spelling by thinking that the heroine in your favorite novel has that extra something about her, that extra pizzazz that makes everyone love her—and ...
( Category: Vocabulary March 6,2015 )
epub |eng, eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:Herb Cohen [Herb Cohen]

Speaking of counteracting emotional tactics, this brings me to a question that I have often been asked lately. The questioner is commonly a woman executive in business or government. The ...
( Category: Negotiating March 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Gooden, Philip [Gooden, Philip]

These, and countless others, were the books taken up by the expanding middle classes. The flourishing printing presses, which fed the appetite for reading by turning out not only novels ...
( Category: Linguistics March 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Melvyn Bragg

She fed the old hen. The cow was in the lot. She has a new hat. He sits on a tin box. Spelling began early, simply, at school, through Noah ...
( Category: Linguistics March 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-14 | Author:Leo Rosten

Pronounced MOTT-seh (not MOTT-so), to rhyme with “lotsa.” Hebrew: The plural in Hebrew is matzot, pronounced MOTT-sez in Yiddish. Unleavened bread (it comes in thin, flat, ridgy oblongs and is ...
( Category: Etymology March 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-05-05 | Author:Magnacca, Mark [Magnacca, Mark]

Neil delivered those lines with a sense of confidence and conviction and walked off the stage to a round of spirited applause. I could tell from my vantage point that ...
( Category: Communications March 3,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-02-28 | Author:Plato

Impossible, he replied. She is held fast by the corporeal, which the continual association and constant care of the body have wrought into her nature. Very true. And this corporeal ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 3,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Helen Sword [Sword, Helen]

* * * SPOTLIGHT ON STYLE MARJORIE GARBER Shibboleth thus came to mean a word used as a test for detecting foreigners and also, by extension, a catchword used by ...
( Category: Authorship March 3,2015 )