Words, Language & Grammar
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1992-09-01 | Author:Sinclair Lewis
CHAPTER XIX I IN three years of exile from herself Carol had certain experiences chronicled as important by the Dauntless, or discussed by the Jolly Seventeen, but the event unchronicled, ...
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Satire
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-11-15 | Author:Bill Bryson
12 Democratizing Luxury: Shopping in America In 1846 an Irish immigrant in New York named Alexander Stewart opened a business on Broadway called the Marble Dry-Goods Palace and in so ...
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Linguistics
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Stanley Fish
(1925) Is this a sentence? It doesn’t have a beginning, middle, or end, and as you read it you can’t chart its progress toward a designed close. Who says “she ...
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General Books & Reading
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Lynne Truss
The big final rule for the comma is one that you won’t find in any books by grammarians. It is quite easy to remember, however. The rule is: don’t use ...
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Vocabulary
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Justin Cord Hayes
grin ORIGINAL DEFINITION: showing the teeth due to pain or anger NEW DEFINITION: show the teeth in a smile Sometimes it can be painful to hold a grin for too ...
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Word Lists
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:Mark Forsyth
Flying Peters Piers Plowman is a variant of Peter Plowman because the farmer in the poem was representative of the ideal disciple of Christ, the chief of the apostles and ...
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Etymology
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-30 | Author:John McWhorter
And somme understonde wel Englysch that can nother Latyn nor Frankys. Bothe lered and lewed, olde and gonge, Alle understonden english tonge. Lewed, by the way, meant “unlearned”—neat how the ...
( Category:
Etymology
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-27 | Author:John Marciano
pan·der v. To cynically cater to another’s interests. The character from whom this term originates has a long and varied history on the margins of great literature. In Homer’s Iliad, ...
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Movements & Periods
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Pennebaker, James W. [Pennebaker, James W.]
The words people use in their conversations, e-mails, and letters predict where they rank in the social hierarchy surprisingly well. As you might guess, status is revealed by function words ...
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Social Psychology & Interactions
March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Catherine Blyth
➺ Rule five: Scavenge for material Nothing to inspire you? Excuses, excuses. Imagine doing zip all, beautifully, full-time—and having to entertain bored masters, potentially on pain of death? Courtiers, muzzled ...
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Etiquette
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-01 | Author:Chris Hedges
The assault on education began more than a century ago by industrialists and capitalists such as Andrew Carnegie. In 1891, Carnegie congratulated the graduates of the Pierce College of Business ...
( Category:
Media & Internet
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-16 | Author:Arthur E. Rowse; John G. Doherty
SIGNS OF CHANGE But there never has been any doubt as to which side was winning. It has always been the brash linguistic invaders. One of the signs of change ...
( Category:
Social Sciences
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 1973-10-15 | Author:Dean Koontz
CHAPTER FIVE Gothic-Romance In my third year as a freelance writer, the science fiction market temporarily dried up, due to editorial overstocking at several of the houses with the largest ...
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Words, Language & Grammar
March 25,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-07 | Author:Forsyth, Mark [Forsyth, Mark]
2 ‘Head Over Feet’ (1996) by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard. Chapter 19 Isocolon Roses are red. Violets are blue. That, at its simplest, is isocolon. Two clauses that are ...
( Category:
Etymology
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1953-01-01 | Author:Flannery O'Connor
The child crashed through the woods, making the fallen leaves sound ominous under her feet. The sun had risen a little and was only a white hole like an opening ...
( Category:
Short Stories
March 25,2014 )
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