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Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot, redundant, and unique incorrectly every day. Don’t be one of them. Using examples of misuse from leading newspapers, prominent public figures and famous writers, among others, language gurus Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras explain how to avoid these perilous pitfalls in the English language.

Like a seasoned sportscaster, Fish marvels at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences and breaks them down into digestible morsels, giving listeners an instant play-by-play. Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen, How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual—it is a spirited love letter to the written word, and a key to understanding how great writing works. It is a book that will stand the test of time.

Get ready for test day the fast way! A quick and easy-to-digest story that includes 500 of the most popular GRE words. Sail around the tropics with Lilly and her coterie of marine scientists as they uncover the mysterious anomaly that is harming the coral reef. This book is a quick way to help you learn 500 of the top GRE vocabulary words. As you listen through, you will hear the GRE words. In most cases, you will be able to gather the meaning right from the context of the sentence or paragraph.

Communicating in Written English: A Guide to Prepare for College Level Reading and Writing bridges the gap for students who are starting their first year in college after many years absent from the classroom. This easy guide provides tips for reading analysis, sentence structure, punctuation, writing composition, essay construction, common mistakes made by freshman college students, and general advice for your freshman composition course. This is the perfect jumpstart to ensure your readiness for English 101.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to 5,000 Most Common GRE Words with Example Sentences: Official Test Preparation Guide: A Vocabulary Builder for Adults and build up your vocabulary for the GRE.

Hundreds of thousands of teachers have used this highly practical guide to help K-12 students enlarge their vocabulary and get involved in noticing, understanding, and using new words.

“50 Things to Know about the CELTA Course” by author Catherine Camilleri offers a personal approach to mastering this highly intensive, Cambridge University course. Most books on CELTA tell you the logistics of the course. Although there is nothing wrong with that, this book gives you an in-depth and personal look inside the classroom. Based on knowledge from the world's leading experts, more and more teachers are choosing to take the CELTA to reach new opportunities in the ESL field.

This five session guide builds your vocabulary for college by presenting challenging words in multiple settings. Learning new vocabulary is a multi-stage process involving multiple interactions with new words in context. This course achieves this by explaining words through their definitions as you would expect, but then presenting them in stories, with their opposites, explaining relevant Greek and Latin word stems, semantic scales and using other proven techniques to rapidly expand your vocabulary via challenging, but commonly used words.

This 10-session course is tailored to enhance the vocabulary of 9th graders, focusing on their educational needs and developmental stage. It covers over 100 words, such as 'feign,' 'zoology,' 'stolid,' 'renegade,' 'rapport,' and 'insidious,' chosen for their relevance to both academic curricula and everyday language.

Embark on a journey to elevate your language skills with this comprehensive audio-course for adult learners. This 5-session course is designed to enhance your vocabulary, providing you with new words and their meanings, such as desolate, kinetic, and ebullient. It's suitable for personal enrichment and professional success, and also serves as an advanced course for ESL learners.

Improve your English with this book of prepositional phrases in dialogues. Jackie Bolen has 20 years of experience teaching ESL/EFL to students in South Korea and Canada. With her help, you'll improve your English vocabulary in no time at all! With her help, you'll improve your English vocabulary in no time at all! This book is written for intermediate English learners.

A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography. Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger (†)—which alternately illuminated and skewered heretical verses of the early Bible—or the at sign (@), which languished in obscurity for centuries until rescued by the Internet, Keith Houston draws on myriad sources to chart the life and times of these enigmatic squiggles, both exotic (¶) and everyday (&).

En una época de grandes transformaciones en la que es necesario que los avances de género se asienten y permeen toda manifestación social y cultural, es indudable la exigencia de contar con un vocabulario que dé cuenta de este escenario en el que se desarrollan las sociedades actuales. Así, mediante la búsqueda de lo que esconden los vocablos, a veces desde la orilla de la denuncia y lo pocas veces expresado,

For word nerds and grammar geeks, a witty guide to the most commonly mispronounced words, along with their correct pronunciations and pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and histories of use and misuse.

Reisen Sie in der Ausgabe 9/2023 von "Spotlight Audio" in die majestätische Stadt Edinburgh, die Hauptstadt Schottlands. Ebenfalls in dieser Ausgabe: Ein amerikanischer Airline-Pilot gewährt faszinierende Einblicke in seinen Beruf, und außerdem können Sie Ihr Vokabular zum Thema Delegieren im Berufsleben verbessern. Englisch lernen mit "Spotlight Audio".