English Grammar

A compendium of 100 words and phrases smart people use--even if they only kinda sorta (secretly don't) know what they mean--with pithy definitions and fascinating etymologies to solidify their meanings. Your boss makes a joke about Schrodinger's cat--which is something you've heard of but you're...

An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse. Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite...

Want to boost your child’s learning? Want to help them build foundational skills that will make them better equipped for the tasks ahead? They may still be in kindergarten, but this is a prime period for children to absorb new knowledge. And one of the best ways that kids can learn at this age is through listening. The more they’re exposed to talk and interaction, the more their vocabulary expands, and the better they’ll be able to communicate. With this audiobook, your child will enrich their vocabulary and develop their spelling and pronunciation skills.

This is the summary of the book going over all of each letter's meanings. It is the equivalent to an index. The Egyptian meaning gleanings are not included.

Welcome to Vocabulary For Adults! This audiobook follows a very unique method of learning to ensure the greatest amount of retention. You will learn easier and remember more. Please note, this is intended to be listened to as an audiobook to get the maximum benefit from it. The audiobook has background music and paced reading that enhances the learning experience.

Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people in the know. This hybrid language, dubbed Rotwelsch, facilitated survival for people in flight - whether escaping persecution or just down on their luck. It was a language of the road associated with vagabonds, travelers, Jews, and thieves that blended words from Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Romani, Czech, and other European languages and was rich in expressions for police, jail, or experiencing trouble, such as being in a pickle. This renegade language unsettled those in power.

A high-powered Manhattan attorney finds love, purpose, and the promise of a simpler life in her grandmother's hometown. Ellen Branford is going to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish -- to find the hometown boy she once loved, and give him her last letter. Ellen leaves Manhattan and her...

¿Preparado para que tu profesor de iglés llegue a casa? El profesor será David Waddell. Conocedor de las principales dificultades de los españoles a la hora de hablar inglés, David te enseñará las estructuras gramaticales y las expresiones obligatorias para estudiantes de nivel intermedio bajo.

Oliver Wyman reads The Speakeasy Guide and captures the rich atmosphere and enduring cultural influence of the roaring ‘20s. While the anecdote about Audible staffers stumbling out of an anonymous casino might be in doubt, one thing’s for sure – this fun listen is the bee’s knees.

Learning a new language is not easy, and it can be quite boring and tiring if you don't have the right tools to learn it. This is also why many people choose to travel and dive directly in the place, but it is not such a simple solution for everyone. It will seem like a misplaced question, but science helps you here: Do you know that we memorize and learn information more easily through stories? That's because our brain likes it, and it has been so used to it from an early age, with the stories they told us, cartoons etc. In this way, we are more inclined to learn.

Splendiferous Speech explores the main sources of the American vernacular - the expanding western frontier, the bumptious world of politics, and the sensation-filled pages of popular 19th-century newspapers. It's a process that started with the earliest English colonists (first word adoption - the Algonquian raccoon) and is still going strong today. Author Rosemarie Ostler takes listeners along on the journey as Americans learn to declare linguistic independence and embrace their own brand of speech.

Chcesz tak opanować gramatykę, aby poprawnie rozmawiać i pisać po angielsku? Ucz się z kursem "Angielski Grammar Master: Grammar Tenses+ Grammar Practice", który stopniowo uczy wszystkich najważniejszych czasów i form gramatycznych niezbędnych do poprawnego porozumiewania się w języku angielskim na poziomie średnio zaawansowanym i zaawansowanym. Dlaczego warto wybrać kurs "Angielski Grammar Master: Grammar Practice"? Aby udoskonalić swój styl wypowiedzi, nie wystarczy poznać zasady gramatyczne. Ważne jest, aby rozumieć różnice w użyciu czasów i wiedzieć, w jakich sytuacjach zastosować daną formę.

By using this audiobook together with practice, you can learn to understand, read, write, and speak this beautiful language. French tends to have a reputation among English speakers as hard to learn, but it’s easier than you might think.

The Learn Portuguese series takes away the agony of learning, making it a fun and interactive experience. In this series, you will learn the most frequently used words, verbs, and phrases first, before proceeding to learn Portuguese grammar. This easy and highly effective structure will hijack your learning curve effectively as you will learn the Portuguese language in the same way you learned your native language as a child.

In The Tale of English Punctuation: A Grammarland Adventure, children aged 6–10 will discover how commas, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, and their quirky punctuation friends help make writing clear, expressive, and fun. Each chapter brings the marks to life as unique characters—from the graceful Comma who keeps lists in order to the dramatic Dash who loves excitement—each one shining in their own special month of the year.

For 15 years, the Philpotts have been getting under the skin of musical artistes. Picking up on glaring errors in their lyrics or sometimes getting completely the wrong end of the stick (perhaps to irritate things a little further), they totally misunderstand the meaning of "poetic license". Hundreds of missives have landed on the real and virtual doormats of musicians, worldwide. In return, these lyrical legends have exercised their right to reply, correcting and sometimes confirming the authors' summation of what went wrong...or right.

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This is audiobook four of the Life Mastery course: Grammar. The topics include the importance of good grammar and 50 of the most common grammar mistakes and how to avoid them.

Do you wish to help your child improve their grammar, vocabulary, as well as spelling skills, to help them in an upcoming spelling bee or simply help them improve their performance in language? you’ve just discovered the perfect spelling bee guide, with over 400+ words to help your kid master comprehension, writing, spelling, and usage of each word! Learning spelling can greatly give your school going child an edge, not just in a spelling bee but in other aspects of their school life.