A Guide To Writing

English Grammar in Use Third edition is a fully updated version of the classic grammar title. It retains all the key features of clarity and accessibility that have made the book popular with students and teachers alike. Designed to be flexible, the book is available both with and without answers, making it ideal for self-study, but also suitable for reinforcement work in the classroom. The ‘with answers’ version of the book comes with a handy pull-out reference panel which allows students to review key grammar points at a glance. The book is also available with a CD-ROM, giving hundreds of interactive exercises to reinforce the language learned in the book.

Author: Raymond Murphy
Paperback:  390 pages
Company: Cambridge University Press  (2004-05-10)
ISBN: 0521537622
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Now beginners can master Spanish grammar with the proven Practice Makes Perfect method!

Combining clear presentation, exercises, and a focus on practical conversational skills has proven a winning formula for the Practice Makes Perfect workbook series. Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar builds on the series’ success with a similarly interactive approach, embracing all aspects of Spanish grammar that you need to master. This engaging guide offers:

• An extensive grammar review, highlighted by illustrative examples
• Dozens of exercises, including fill-ins, translations, and creative writing
• Time saving thematic vocabulary panels to cut down on dictionary drudgery
• Boxed summaries of key grammar points for focused learning
• Detailed answer keys for progress checks

Author: Gilda Nissenberg
Paperback:  356 pages
Company: McGraw-Hill  (2004-03-26)
ISBN: 0071422706
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Hardcover:  984 pages
Company: University Of Chicago Press  (2003-08-01)
ISBN: 0226104036
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This very approachable text combines instruction in parts of speech and sentence structure with down-to-earth examples, funny illustrations, and examination of some of the more amusing and peculiar words in the English language. A chapter on clear e-mail communication and etiquette is brand new in this edition, as are many of the author’s challenging “Brain Ticklers.” Her helpful chapter on how to edit a school paper has also been heavily revised and updated.

Barron’s popular Painless Series of study guides for middle school and high school students offer a lighthearted, often humorous approach to their subjects, transforming details that might once have seemed boring or difficult into a series of interesting and mentally challenging ideas. Most titles in the series feature many fun-to-solve “Brain Tickler” problems with answers at the end of each chapter.

Author: Rebecca Elliott Ph.D.
Paperback:  224 pages
Company: Barron’s Educational Series  (2006-08-01)
ISBN: 0764134361
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Composition teachers throughout the English-speaking world have been pushing this book on their students since it was first published in 1957. Co-author White later revised it, and it remains the most compact and lucid handbook we have for matters of basic principles of composition, grammar, word usage and misusage, and writing style.

Author: William Strunk, E. B. White, Roger Angell
Hardcover:  105 pages
Company: Allyn & Bacon  (1999-08-24)
ISBN: 0205313426
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The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation

Tenth Edition

“Designed to answer the most pressing grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and usage questions . . . In this revised and updated tenth edition of her best-selling book, Jane Straus adds a new section on Confusing Words and Homonyms with hundreds of the trickiest words defined and explained.?Hailed as ‘a masterpiece of clarity and usefulness.’”
—From the Foreword by Mignon Fogarty, creator of the Grammar Girl podcast

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is filled with easy-to-understand rules,real-world examples, dozens of reproducible exercises, and pre- and post-tests.

This handy workbook is ideal for teachers, students in middle school through college, ESL students, homeschoolers, and professionals. Valuable for anyone who takes tests or writes reports, letters, Web pages, e-mails, or blogs, The Blue Book offers instant answers to everyday English usage questions.

Praise for Jane Straus and The Blue Book

“Clearly presented so that you can easily find the informationyou’re looking for. This is great for students or for anyone who has troubleremembering the rules of grammar and punctuation.”
—Kate Russell, BBC World/ClickOnline

“Never has there been such a well-arranged, easily navigatedguidebook as this. It is perfect for the homeschool family. One of the mostpractical, useable, beneficial resources, it doubles both as a quick referenceguide and student workbook (with answers in the back)!”
—The Old Schoolhouse Magazine

“Grammarians and citizens, I invite you to raise a glass to Jane Straus.The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is one-stop shopping for comprehensive grammar and style rules and is as charming as it is useful. I can’t imagine one person whose writing wouldn’t benefit enormously from reading this book.”
—Kate McCulley, The Grammar Vandal, www.thegrammarvandal.com

Author: Jane Straus
Paperback:  176 pages
Company: Jossey-Bass  (2007-12-14)
ISBN: 0470222689
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Author: Diana Hacker
Paperback:  960 pages
Company: Bedford/St. Martin’s  (2005-11-18)
ISBN: 0312419333
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Author: Diana Hacker
Spiral-bound:  247 pages
Company: Bedford/St. Martin’s  (1999-12-03)
ISBN: 0312406843
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Nobody knows silly better than we do. And with Super Silly Mad Libs Junior, younger readers are introduced to the crazy world of Mad Libs.

Author: Roger Price
Paperback:  48 pages
Company: Price Stern Sloan  (2004-02-02)
ISBN: 0843107588
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Liber prosperissimus et mirabilis ex Britannia ad Americam tandem advenit! Umquam vexatus es quando homo inritans “sine qua non” aut “mea culpa” dicit? Aut postmeridiana tempora vetera, quando verba obscura ediscere conatus es, terrunt?

Nil desperandum!

Linguae Latinae hoc in itinere iucundo, qui omnia ex lectione grammatica ab Monte Pythone ad Angelinae Jolia in pelle notas et omnia optima in historiae litteratae annis duo milliis ex poese et litteris excerpta habet, Henricus Mons pulvem ex libellis odiosis deterget et in linguam maximam in aeternum vitam respirat.

The phenomenal bestseller from the U.K. finally arrives in the States! Have you even found yourself irritated when a sine qua non or a mea culpa is thrown into the conversation by a particularly annoying person? Or do distant memories of afternoons spent struggling to learn obscure verbs fill you with dread?

Never fear!

In this delightful guided tour of Latin, which features everything from a Monty Python grammar lesson to Angelina Jolie’s tattoo and all the best snippets of prose and poetry from two thousand years of literary history, Harry Mount wipes the dust off those boring primers and breathes life back into the greatest language of them all.

Author: Harry Mount
Hardcover:  272 pages
Company: Hyperion  (2007-11-06) (2007-11-06)
ISBN: 1401322344
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