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Grammar & Writing for Standardized Tests
by Beverly Ann Chin Martin E. LeeA publisher-supplied textbook
Grammar 101
by Claudia SorsbyIf you make a grammatical mistake, you might never know it--but your boss, you teacher, or your client will. And they won't forget it. This easy-to-use handbook contains 101 simple rules that will help make students' writing letter-perfect--without the headache of complicated jargon. Students and other readers of Grammar 101 will find dozens of useful tools and exercises herein, and will learn: · How to notice slips between its and it's; their and they're--and other common mistakes no spell-checker will catch · How fragments, double negatives, and run-on sentences weaken one's writing · The distinctions between lie and lay, sit and set, rise and raise, and other frequently confused words · Why it's easy to eliminate one of the most common mistakes in the English language--the misplaced apostrophe · How to put punch into one's punctuation and grace into one's grammar with the dozens of tools and exercises the this book. The book that gives you well-groomed writing without wasting your time, Grammar 101 deserves a place in your briefcase, bookshelf, or bookbag.
Grammar 101: From Split Infinitives to Dangling Participles, an Essential Guide to Understanding Grammar (Adams 101)
by Kathleen SearsLearn the rules of the English language with this easy and engaging style guide.Grammar is complicated. But many textbooks and style guides are often so long and tedious that even English teachers use them as a classroom doorstop. Grammar 101 is a fun, comprehensive guide focusing on the essentials of grammar. With simple explanations and entertaining examples, you can learn everything you need to know to employ commas, semicolons, and em dashes with confidence. You’ll even be prepared to wrangle your run-on sentences and sharpen your syntax with ease. So whether you’re looking for an introduction to the rules of grammar or a refresher to keep on your desk, Grammar 101 has all the answers.
Grammar Girl Presents the Ultimate Writing Guide for Students
by Mignon FogartyNamed to the International Reading Association's 2012 Teachers' Choice book list, Grammar Girl Presents the Ultimate Writing Guide for Students is a complete and comprehensive guide to all things grammar from Grammar Girl, a. k. a. Mignon Fogarty, whose popular podcasts have been downloaded over twenty million times and whose first book, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, was a New York Times bestseller. For beginners to more advanced students, this guide covers it all: the parts of speech, sentences, and punctuation are all explained clearly and concisely with the warmth, wit, and accessibility Grammar Girl is known for. Pop quizzes are scattered throughout to reinforce the explanations, as well as Grammar Girl's trademark Quick and Dirty Tips--easy and fun memory tricks to help with those challenging rules. Complete with a writing style chapter and a guide to the different kinds of writing--everything from school papers to letter writing to e-mails--this guide is sure to become the one-stop, essential book on every student's desk.
Grammar Girl's 101 Misused Words You'll Never Confuse Again (Quick & Dirty Tips)
by Mignon FogartyMillions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 30 million times. After realizing her fans were asking the same questions over and over, Mignon decided to focus her attention on those words that continuously confound the masses. In Grammar Girl's 101 Misused Words You'll Never Confuse Again, you'll learn:- When you should use affect and when effect is right- Whether you should you say purposely or purposefully- The difference between hilarious and hystericalPacked with clear explanations, fun quotations showing the word used in context, and the quick and dirty memory tricks Mignon is known for, this friendly reference guide ends the confusion once and for all and helps you speak and write with confidence.
Grammar Sense 1
by Cheryl PavlikGrammar Sense is a four-level discourse-based grammar series which focuses on the connection between form, meaning, and use of English structures. The series is based on the fundamental premise that English grammar is learnable and teachable if it is systematically organized and explained. Grammar Sense implements linguistic and applied linguistic research on how, where, when, and why native speakers use English structures, and how non-native speakers learn them. This series provides learners with a true understanding of how grammar is used in authentic contexts. Grammar is presented in discourse rather than in isolated sentences which allows the students to understand English grammar in real life situations.
Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
by June CasagrandeWhat do suicidal pandas, doped-up rock stars, and a naked Pamela Anderson have in common? They’re all a heck of a lot more interesting than reading about predicate nominatives and hyphens. June Casagrande knows this and has invented a whole new twist on the grammar book. Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies is a laugh-out-loud funny collection of anecdotes and essays on grammar and punctuation, as well as hilarious critiques of the self-appointed language experts. Chapters include: I’m Writing This While Naked—The Oh-So Steamy Predicate Nominative Semicolonoscopy—Colons, Semicolons, Dashes, and Other Probing Annoyances I’ll Take "I Feel Like a Moron" for $200, Alex—When to Put Punctuation Inside Quotation Marks Snobbery Up with Which You Should Not Put Up—Prepositions Is That a Dangler in Your Memo or Are You Just Glad to See Me? Hyphens—Life-Sucking, Mom-and-Apple-Pie-Hating, Mime-Loving, Nerd-Fight-Inciting Daggers of the Damned Casagrande delivers practical and fun language lessons not found anywhere else, demystifying the subject and taking it back from the snobs. In short, it’s a grammar book people will actually want to read—just for the fun of it. .
Grammar Sucks: What to Do to Make Your Writing Much More Better
by Joanne KimesA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Grammar for Grown-Ups: A Comprehensive Guide and Workbook to Boost Your Writing Skills
by Mark PetersIt&’s never too late to brush up on your writing skills!Writing is a daily part of adult life, but many people are uncertain about basic rules and conventions. Do I need a comma before this clause? What exactly is a prepositional phrase? Is it ever necessary to use brackets? (Answer: Rarely, if ever.) With clear, no-nonsense explanations and examples, Grammar for Grown-ups makes learning the finer points of the English language easy. This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know for clear and professional communication, including the mechanics of writing, the parts of speech, and proper punctuation and capitalization, as well as the most common errors—and how to avoid and fix them. Each lesson includes a practice exercise to reinforce learning.Master the basics—clear coverage of grammar rules and conventions, including the parts of speech and sentence structureFine-tune the mechanics—how to use punctuation effectively and accuratelyWrite with style—strategies to make your writing clear, compelling, consistent, and concisePractice makes perfect—exercise component for each lesson to reinforce learning
Grammar for Smart People
by Barry TarshisGood grammar is essential for effective communication. Yet many of us are plagued by the same nagging question: If I'm so smart why does grammar make me feel so dumb? Grammar For Smart People can help. Here at last, is a lively, user-friendly guide that zeroes in on the areas that give everyone the most trouble, and it does it with an advantage most grammar books lack - a light touch. You won't feel as though you're back in the fifth grade, diagramming sentences and struggling with a grammar textbook filled with dull, unbreakable rules.
Grammar for Smart People
by TarshisGood grammar is essential for effective communication. Yet many of us are plagued by the same nagging question: If I'm so smart why does grammar make me feel so dumb? Grammar For Smart People can help. Here at last, is a lively, user-friendly guide that zeroes in on the areas that give everyone the most trouble, and it does it with an advantage most grammar books lack - a light touch. You won't feel as though you're back in the fifth grade, diagramming sentences and struggling with a grammar textbook filled with dull, unbreakable rules.
Grammatically Correct: An Essential Guide to Punctuation, Style, Usage and More
by Anne StilmanHow does good writing stand out? If its purpose is to convey facts, findings, or instructions, it need be read only once for its content to be clear. If its purpose is to entertain or to provoke thought, it makes readers want to come back for more.Revised and updated, this guide covers four essential aspects of good writing:Individual words: spelling variations, hyphenation, frequently confused homonyms, frequently misused words and phrases, irregular plurals and negatives, and uses of capitalization and type style to add special meanings. Punctuation: the role of each mark in achieving clarity and affecting tone, and demonstration of how misuses can lead to ambiguity. Syntax and structure: agreement of subject and verb, parallel construction, modifiers, tenses, pronouns, active versus passive voice, and more. Style:advice on the less hard-and-fast areas of clarity and tone, including sentence length and order, conciseness, simplification, reading level, jargon and cliches, and subtlety. Filled with self-test exercises and whimsical literary quotations, Grammatically Correct steers clear of academic stuffiness, focusing instead on practical strategies and intuitive explanations. Discussions are designed to get to the heart of a concept and provide a sufficient sense of when and how to use it, along with examples that show what ambiguities or misinterpretations might result if the rules are not followed. In cases where there is more than one acceptable way to do something, the approach is not to prescribe one over another but simply to describe the options. Readers of this book will never break the rules of language again - unintentionally.
Gramática griega: Sintaxis del Nuevo Testamento - Segunda edición con apéndice (Biblioteca Teologica Vida)
by Daniel B. Wallace Daniel S. SteffenMuchos estudiantes de griego se frustran porque nunca aprenden cómo aplicar su conocimiento básico del griego a una interpretación del texto. Este libro ofrece un texto de referencia para los cursos de gramática griega del segundo año, y servirá de vínculo entere las formas de las palabras y sus diferentes usos dentro de contextos distintos. Estas diferencias casi siempre cambian el significado de la traducción e interpretación del teto griego del Nuevo Testamento.Este libro tan práctico:• Ayuda a conocer los contextos en que hay diferentes usos de las formas griegas.• Incluye muchos ejemplos del texto griego del Nuevo Testamento que sirve de modelo de cómo hacer exégesis.• Incluye ejercicios que permiten al estudiante aplicar la lista de usos de las categorías de sintaxis, después de aprenderlos.Este libro de sintaxis de la gramática griega es una adaptación y abreviatura del libro Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament, que se usa en multitud de cursos de exégesis en muchos seminarios en inglés y otros idiomas del mundo. Este libro, por fin, cubre una necesidad en la enseñanza de la exégesis gramatical para todo el mundo que habla español.
Grand Entrance: Worship On Earth As In Heaven
by Edith M. HumphreyCan we understand worship in a way that transcends style, relevance, and aesthetics? Taking into account the most contested issues of the "worship wars," prominent New Testament scholar Edith Humphrey shows how the act of entering into God's presence is central to all true Christian worship. Regardless of worship style, when we come into God's presence, we praise God alongside angels and with the whole of creation. Seeking to reclaim the forgotten theme of worship as entry into God's presence, Humphrey shows its prominence in the Bible, providing an accessible but thorough study of the Old and New Testaments. She analyzes key moments in church history to show how worship developed in Eastern and Western churches. She also draws insights from healthy worshiping communities around the globe. The book offers practical guidance to worship directors, pastors, thoughtful lay readers, and students with regards to balanced and faithful worship.
Grandad's Wit and Wisdom: Quips and Quotes for Glorious Grandpas
by Richard BensonWhen your roses have been trampled by little feet and the golf has been hijacked by children’s TV, reach for this hilarious book, crammed full of quips and quotes to remind you why being a grandad is one of the best jobs in the world.
Grandad's Wit and Wisdom: Quips and Quotes for Glorious Grandpas
by Richard BensonWhen your roses have been trampled by little feet and the golf has been hijacked by children’s TV, reach for this hilarious book, crammed full of quips and quotes to remind you why being a grandad is one of the best jobs in the world.
Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions
by Jason Travis OttThis recondite caboodle of glosses panegyrizes the boggles of our palaver.* Words confirm and deny, guarantee and deceive, elucidate and obfuscate. The more words you know, the better you can express yourself and the more you can do in life. The founder of Grandiloquent Word of the Day accordingly presents a voluptuary of verbiage encompassing rare and obscure terms that confound or delight, antiquated argot from myriad epochs, and lexemes for venturesome bibliophiles. Featuring a short, insightful introduction, Grandiloquent Words offers more than 250 preternatural terminologies for you to ingurgitate and brandish with aplomb for countless occasions. Bask in cataracts of mundane morphemes, bookish locutions, beef-witted blatteroons, corporeal catastrophes, playful patois, and jolly jubilations. These always-extra expressions encompass timeless topics and modern phenomena, painting a group portrait of our foibles and joys. Replete with pronunciations, etymologies, examples, and whimsical illustrations, it will edify and entertain. *This rare collection of definitions celebrates the marvels of our language.
Grandma's Wit and Wisdom: Quips and Quotes for the Greatest Grannies
by Richard BensonWhen there are sticky handprints on the sofa and you can’t prise the darlings away from a screen, reach into your handbag for this hilarious book, crammed full of quips and quotes to remind you why being a grandma is one of the best jobs in the world.
Grandma's Wit and Wisdom: Quips and Quotes for the Greatest Grannies
by Richard BensonWhen there are sticky handprints on the sofa and you can’t prise the darlings away from a screen, reach into your handbag for this hilarious book, crammed full of quips and quotes to remind you why being a grandma is one of the best jobs in the world.
Grandma's sayings... commented: Spanish sayings (libro 1 #1)
by Víctor Fernández CastillejoMuch of my education I have acquired from my maternal grandmother: María Cristina Barrón. Among her teachings you always found a saying tailor-made for what occasion. Over the years I have learned sayings from other people; in most cases, elderly women. This book is intended to be a tribute to all of them and to the millions of women who have endured popular wisdom through the years through sayings. It is also a way to spread Spanish through the proverbs. It is not intended to be just another book of sayings, since not all of them are —not even close— but they are all of them. The idea is to present some of the most popular sayings and comment on them from the humild and opinion of the writer. The other intention of the work is that the sayings of these women endure over the years and do not fall into oblivion. It is not a book —nor does it claim to be— that you consider your own, since many of the sayings are anonymous. It is a rec nowledge and pay for that s grandmothers who both offered their teachings and complained so little. To all of them: thank you, a thousand thanks.
Granny Squares, One Square at a Time: Amulet Bag
by Creative Publishing international“Crocheters looking to move beyond basic granny squares, as well as new crocheters drawn to these traditional motifs, will enjoy this collection.” —Library JournalWith all you need to start crocheting your very own granny squares, this kit includes a step-by-step, thirty-two–page booklet that contains illustrated instructions for crocheting classic granny squares, plus eight more granny square patterns. You’ll also get a special project that will help you create amulet bags made from your granny squares!
Granny's Household Hints: Traditional Tips for a Clean, Green Home
by Brenda EvansIn Granny's day there were few labour-saving devices or fancy cleaning products. So when it comes to getting stains out of the carpet or keeping her laundry sparkling white, she still prefers tried-and-tested techniques handed down through the generations. Many people nowadays would prefer to use natural, traditional cleaning methods, rather than chemicals that can be harmful to our health and the environment. So why not follow in Granny's footsteps and try her effective, green and surprisingly simple household hints? Learn how to keep your home spotless using common ingredients found in your kitchen cupboard, like lemon juice or bicarbonate of soda. You'll be helping the planet and your wallet too ... Granny would be proud!
Grant Seeking in an Electronic Age (Technical Communication Ser.)
by Victoria M. Mikelonis Signe T. Betsinger Constance KampfThis guide teaches students and professionals a systematic process for researching, designing, writing, and submitting successful grant-seeking proposals. <P><P>Focusing on proposals submitted for government, foundation, and corporation funding, Grant Seeking in an Electronic Age leads the reader through a six-step grant-seeking process, from researching potential funders, to designing, writing and submitting a proposal that follows the funder's guidelines. Grounded in theory, but rooted in successful practice, it teaches students what really works–a third of students who submit proposals based on this text's approach get funded within a year. The text's guided discovery process provides a useful framework for novice writers while its thinking-planning exercises offer useful ways of organizing information and discovering what still need to be researched.
Grant Writing for Dummies
by Bev BrowningGet the scoop on government grants, make multiple grant requests, use words that make funders say 'yes', recycle rejected proposals, and more!
Graphic Artists Guild Handbook, 16th Edition: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines
by The Graphic Artists GuildThe industry bible for communication design and illustration professionals, with updated information, listings, and pricing guidelines.Graphic Artists Guild Handbook is the industry bible for communication design and illustration professionals. A comprehensive reference guide, the Handbook helps graphic artists navigate the world of pricing, collecting payment, and protecting their creative work, with essential advice for growing a freelance business to create a sustainable and rewarding livelihood. This sixteenth edition provides excellent, up-to-date guidance, incorporating new information, listings, and pricing guidelines. It offers graphic artists practical tips on how to negotiate the best deals, price their services accurately, and create contracts that protect their rights. Sample contracts and other documents are included. For the sixteenth edition, the content has been reorganized, topics have been expanded, and new chapters have been added to create a resource that is more relevant to how graphic artists work today. Features include:More in-depth information for the self-employed on how to price work to make a sustainable living and plan for times of economic uncertainty.A new chapter on using skills and talents to maximize income with multiple revenue streams—workshops, videos, niche markets, passion projects, selling art, and much more.Current U.S. salary information and freelance rates by discipline.Pricing guidelines for buyers and sellers.Up-to-date copyright registration information.Model contracts and forms to adapt to your specific needs.Interviews with eleven self-employed graphic artists who have created successful careers,using many of the practices found in this Handbook.