Language Arts & Disciplines : Grammar

Featuring colorful cartoons to illustrate each important grammar point, this book lets readers see the grammar concept in action. more...

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Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?. Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills. This Schaum's Outline gives you: Practice problems with full explanations that reinforce knowledge; Coverage of the most up-to-date developments in your course field; In-depth review of practices and applications. Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores!. Schaum's Outlines-Problem Solved. more...

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The Teacher's Grammar of English is a comprehensive resource text designed to help ESL/EFL teachers understand and teach American English grammar. more...

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A manageable way to improve your vocabulary: 200 words common enough to be generally understood, but difficult enough to be misused or neglected; Each term explained fully in everyday language; Examples from reputable sources showing how these words can be used to good effect. Ever heard a word you wish you could use? Address to Impress clearly explains the meaning and nuance of 200 words selected by the editors of The Chambers Dictionary for their practical value. Quotes from popular media show each entry in context, and easily confusable words are flagged up to prevent misuse. Pronunciation is spelled out syllable-by-syllable using the standard alphabet. Whether you are giving a presentation, writing a report or simply browsing through to improve your vocabulary, Address to Impress will help you to express yourself more clearly and effectively. more...

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This book shows that every language has an adjective class and how such classes vary. Thirteen scholars report original research on languages from North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The book throws new light on the nature and classification of adjectives and redefines the cross-linguistic parameters of their variation. - ;This book shows that every language has an adjective class and how such classes vary. The opening chapter considers current generalizations about the nature and classification of adjectives and sets out the cross-linguistic parameters of their variation. Thirteen chapters then explore adjective classes in languages from North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Studies of well-known languages such as Russian, Japanese, Korean and Lao are juxtaposed with. the languages of small hunter-gatherer and slash-and-burn agriculturalist groups. All are based on fine-grained field research. The nature and typology of adjective classes is then reconsidered in the conclusion. The authors reveal that the grammatical properties of the adjective class may be. similar to nouns or verbs or both or neither; that some languages have two kinds of adjectives, one hard to distinguish from nouns and the other from verbs; and that the adjective class can sometimes be large and open, and in other cases small and closed. The book will interest scholars and advanced students of language typology and of the syntax and semantics of adjectives. 'Dixon's introductory chapter, "Adjectival classes in typological perspective", is clearly destined to be a classic in the field.... This volume will clearly be useful to anyone interested in adjectives and the nature of linguistic categorization.' Gary Holton, Linguist List - ;...makes a major contribution to the general study of parts of speech across languages... The editors of this book have provided a much-needed analytical framework for typologi more...

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