#100 - Angela Burt - The A-Z of Correct English - Common Errors in English

Author or Editor: Angela Burt
Publisher: How To Books Ltd
Published: 2002
Pages: 195
Size: 1.45MB

The A–Z of Correct English is a reference book which has been written for the student and the general reader. It aims to tackle the basic questions about spelling, punctuation, grammar and word usage that the student and the general reader are likely to ask.
Throughout the book there are clear explanations, and exemplar sentences where they are needed. When it’s helpful to draw attention to spelling rules and patterns, these are given so that the reader is further empowered to deal with hundreds of related words.
The aim always has been to make the reader more confident and increasingly self-reliant. This is a fast-track reference book. It is not a dictionary although, like a dictionary, it is arranged alphabetically. It concentrates on problem areas; it anticipates difficulties; it invites cross-references. By exploring punctuation, for example, and paragraphing, it goes far beyond a dictionary’s terms of reference. It is not intended to replace a dictionary; it rather supplements it.

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#99 - Pam Peters - The Cambridge Guide to English Usage

Author or Editor: Pam Peters
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Pages: 608
Size: 10MB

The Cambridge Guide to English Usage is written for English-users in the twenty-first century. It takes a fresh look at thousands of questions of style and usage, embracing issues that are time-honored yet still current, as well as those newly arising as the language continues to evolve. Some of these come with electronic communication and online documentation, but there are numerous others among the more than 4000 headwords in the book

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#98 - Various - New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology

Author or Editor: Various
Publisher: Crescent Books
Published: 1987
Pages: 465
Size: 1.9MB

Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. Hence the English adjective 'mythical', meaning 'incredible'; and hence the omission from standard European mythologies, such as this, of all Biblical narratives even when closely paralleled by myths from Persia, Babylonia, Egypt and Greece; and of all hagiological legends. Otherwise, the New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology offers a comprehensive and compact Who's Who or Who Was Who of the better known gods, goddesses, heroes, monsters, demons, angels and saints from all over the world, including certain Moslem ones. It does not discuss philosophic theory or religious experience, and treats each cult with the same impersonal courtesy.

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#97 - Barry Langford - Film Genre Hollywood and Beyond

Author or Editor: Barry Langford
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2005
Pages: 309
Size: 13.5MB

Genre, as a police detective in a British crime film might say, has form. Aristotle opens his Politics, the foundational work of western literary criticism, by identifying it as a work of genre eriticism: 'Our suhject being Poetry, I propose to spclk not only of the art in general but also of its species and their respective capacities.

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#96 - Betty Scrampfer Azar - Basic English Grammar

Author or Editor: Betty Scrampfer Azar
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 1996
Pages: 476
Size: 134MB

Basic English Grammar remains a developmental skills text for students of English as a second or foreign language. Serving as both a reference and a workbook, it inaoduces students to the form, meaning, and usage of basic structures in English. It provide sample opportunities for practice through extensive and varied exercises leading to communicative activities. Although it focuses on grammar, it promotes the development of all language skills.

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#95 - Kirsten Malmkjær - The Linguistics Encyclopedia

Author or Editor: Kirsten Malmkjær
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Pages: 768
Size: 5.6MB

This book has lived through ten successful years. However, no work of reference to a developing discipline can remain at its cutting edge unless it, too, absorbs these developments. So, in this second edition of The Linguistics Encyclopedia, all but a very few entries – mostly those dealing with historical matters – have been extensively revised to take account of new developments in the fields they cover. The material on grammars has been rearranged, and there are brand-new entries on applied linguistics, cognitive linguistics, contrastive linguistics and cross-linguistic studies, and forensic linguistics. In addition, there is a comprehensive, new Introduction to the discipline, written by Tony Howatt from Edinburgh University, a leading authority on the history of linguistics.

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#94 - William Strunk - The Elements of Style

Author or Editor: William Strunk
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Published: 2005
Pages: 178
Size: 48.1MB

This edition has been modestly updated, with word processors and air conditioners making their first appearance among White's references, and with a light redistribution of genders to permit a feminine pronoun or female fanner to take their places among the males who once innocently served him.

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