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The Accidents of Style: Good Advice on How Not to Write Badly
ISBN: 9780312613006 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Fasten your seat belt for a crash course in careful usage.... Just like automobile accidents, accidents of style occur all over the English-speaking world, in print and on the Internet, thousands of times every day. They range from minor fender benders, such as confusing their and there, to serious smashups, such as misusing sensual for sensuous or writing loathe when you mean loath. Charles Harrington Elster shows you how to navigate the hairpin turns of grammar, diction, spelling, and punctuation with an entertaining driver's manual... Fasten your seat belt for a crash course in careful usage.... Just like automobile accidents, accidents of style occur all over the English-speakin... |
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91,69 zł |
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How to Tell Fate from Destiny: And Other Skillful Word Distinctions
ISBN: 9781328884077 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) If you have trouble distinguishing the verbs imitate and emulate, the relative pronouns that and which, or the adjectives pliant, pliable, and supple, never fearHow to Tell Fate from Destiny is here to help! With more than 500 headwords, the book is replete with advice on how to differentiate commonly confused words and steer clear of verbal trouble. If you have trouble distinguishing the verbs imitate and emulate, the relative pronouns that and which, or the adject...
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78,58 zł |
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Test of Time: A Novel Approach to the SAT and ACT
ISBN: 9780156011372 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Test of Time is a captivating time-travel adventure that incorporates vocabulary words from the SAT and ACT, boldfacing them throughout the novel and providing definitions in a handy back-of-the book glossary. The result is a fun and effective study method for the thousands of diligent students who take these tests each year.
For Orlando Garcia Ortiz and his friends at prestigious Hadleyburg University, it's finals week. That same week, but many, many years before, a famously eccentric writer in Hartford, Connecticut, is putting the finishing touches on a manuscript about a rebellious boy... Test of Time is a captivating time-travel adventure that incorporates vocabulary words from the SAT and ACT, boldfacing them throughout the novel and ...
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122,26 zł |
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What in the Word?: Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions about Language
ISBN: 9780156031974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Are you so sure about "assure," "ensure," and "insure" ? Can you determine whether a knob of butter is equivalent to a lump or a pat or a scosh? Can you say which word in the English language has the most definitions, or who put the H in Jesus H. Christ?
If you can't, be assured that Charles Harrington Elster, author of several well-loved works on language, can-and does in his latest book, a delightfully designed compendium of the most common, interesting, and entertaining conundrums in our language. Drawing upon esoteric sources and his own inimitable expertise, Elster uses a lively... Are you so sure about "assure," "ensure," and "insure" ? Can you determine whether a knob of butter is equivalent to a lump or a pat or a scosh? Can y...
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78,58 zł |
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There's a Word for It (Revised Edition): A Grandiloquent Guide to Life
ISBN: 9781416510864 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Here's an irresistible invitation to discover a treasure trove of exceptional words you can use to add sophistication to your vocabulary and charm to your repartee. Consider that without realizing it you may have engaged in acokoinonia (sex without passion or desire), been bored to tears by the company of a philodox (someone in love with his or her opinions), or suffered from recurrent matutolypea (getting up on the wrong side of the bed). Presented with panache by the language connoisseur whom William Safire calls "ek-STROR-di-ner-ee," There's a Word for It will...
Here's an irresistible invitation to discover a treasure trove of exceptional words you can use to add sophistication to your vocabulary and charm to ...
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82,77 zł |
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Word Workout: Building a Muscular Vocabulary in 10 Easy Steps
ISBN: 9780312612993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Word Workout is a practical book for building vocabulary--a graduated program featuring thousands of words that begins with those known by most college graduates and ascends to words known only by the most educated, intelligent, and well-read adults. This workout is a comprehensive program, chock-full of information about synonyms, antonyms, and word origins, and replete with advice on proper usage and pronunciation. There are also creative review quizzes at each step of the way to measure your progress and reinforce learning. Unlike other vocabulary books, Word Workout... Word Workout is a practical book for building vocabulary--a graduated program featuring thousands of words that begins with those known by m... |
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109,16 zł |
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Verbal Advantage: Ten Easy Steps to a Powerful Vocabulary
ISBN: 9780375709326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) First time in book form A successful program for teaching 3,500 vocabulary words that successful people need to know, based on America's #1 bestselling audio vocabulary series.
"People judge you by the words you use." Millions of Americans know this phrase from radio and print advertising for the Verbal Advantage audio series, which has sold over 100,000 copies. Now this bestselling information is available for the first time in book form, in an easy-to-follow, graduated vocabulary building program that teaches an outstanding vocabulary in just ten steps. Unlike other... First time in book form A successful program for teaching 3,500 vocabulary words that successful people need to know, based on America's #1 bestselli...
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77,56 zł |
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