Writing Grammar

Conquer the PSAT/NMSQT Reading and Writing Exam: Your Key to Academic Success is a comprehensive guide tailored to help students excel in the Reading and Writing portion of the PSAT/NMSQT. This book covers critical skills such as reading comprehension, grammar essentials, sentence structure, and vocabulary in context, equipping students with tools for effective test preparation. Each chapter explores essential concepts with clear explanations, from identifying main ideas and supporting details in passages to mastering inference and evidence-based questions. Practical time management tips ...

Let's Practice Spelling and Grammar is laid out to optimize your child's learning by offering a variety of learning techniques. This audiobook will cover the verbal but you will also receive a free downloadable PDF file so they can visually follow along as well as write the words if they so choose. The book covers five weeks worth of words, with 20 words per week. It is broken down to an easy to follow and listen, 10 minutes per day.

Unzip your backpack of verbs. Do they sing, sketch, listen, or read? Swing, pluck, whistle, or feed?

I wrote this book to help students of all ages. Whether you’re studying for the SAT or ACT, are struggling with high school ELA or other related subjects, are trying to find your writing voice, are a high school or middle school ELA teacher, you are planning to get your GED, or you are a parent with school-age children and you want them to get extra support, this book has something in it for you. I have sections about improving grammar, tips to improve your writing, commonly misspelled words, vocabulary builder, and much more. As a teacher myself, I am always happy to share my knowledge ...

This book presents the most important elements of English grammar in a clear and simple manner. The book addresses all those who want to learn English, regardless of age, offering, through clear explanations and algorithms, a better and faster understanding of English grammar. Each lesson is accompanied by examples and exercises. The book contains 900 exercises.

Does your client owe the principal or principle? Is your company moving forwards or forward? Do you have over ten years' experience, or more than ten years' experience? Proper use of the written and spoken word determines whether or not you move ahead in your career. In Booher's Rules of Business Grammar, business communication guru Dianna Booher identifies the top one hundred and one mistakes made in emails, social media sites, websites, presentations, and conversations every day.

We've created this audiobook to help children with spelling, grammar, and spelling bee preparedness. This book provides 11 weeks of 4 days of practice, with a 5th day to see what they have learned. While this audiobook was created for independent study, I encourage you to look over the test. It is important to acknowledge any improvement they have made, no matter how big their win.

In a world where text messages, social media posts, and instant communication dominate, is proper grammar becoming obsolete? The Grammar Gap: Bridging the Divide Between Tradition and Modern Communication explores the fascinating evolution of American English, tracing its historical roots, its golden age of grammatical precision, and the forces that have shaped its current state. This book examines the decline of proper grammar in the United States, driven by cultural shifts, technological advancements, and changes in education. From the rise of abbreviations in texting to the overreliance ...

Your voice matters. Let’s make sure it’s heard—clearly and confidently. Grammar Guardians: Navigating Common Errors for African-American Authors is your essential guide to mastering the mechanics of writing without compromising your culture or identity. Written by cultural editor and storyteller Icarus Carpaccio, this book empowers BIPOC writers to embrace their voice while tackling common grammatical pitfalls. From subject-verb agreement to misplaced modifiers and apostrophe confusion, Grammar Guardians breaks it down with clarity, compassion, and cultural relevance. Inside you’ll ...

In 26 chapters filled with sharp wit, sheer delight, and a documentarian's keen eye, Ammon Shea shares his year inside the Oxford English Dictionary, delivering a hair-pulling, eye-crossing account of reading every word, and revealing the most obscure, hilarious, and wonderful gems he discovers along the way.

Adapted from the New York Times best seller by Random House's longtime copy chief, this informative and witty guide to writing and grammar, written especially for a younger audience, entertains as well as instructs.

Spelling can be very challenging for kids, some schools have even elected to knock it out of their curriculum! All the added time in front of the screen instead of reading books, isn't helping. Luckily, spelling and grammar are two things that can still be taught in a fun and interactive way! Let's Practice Spelling & Grammar is laid out to optimize your child's learning by offering a variety of learning techniques.

This book is a personal spelling dictionary for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade, containing over 700 high-frequency words including, sight words, commonly misspelled words, and academic content words.

At last! A no-nonsense grammar guide that gives you just the skills you need. Now you can learn to recognize and wipe out embarrassing errors, quickly and easily, while you drive, exercise, or relax.

An expat's witty and insightful exploration of English and American cultural differences through the lens of language that will leave listeners gobsmacked. In That's Not English, the seemingly superficial differences between British and American English open the door to a deeper exploration of a historic and fascinating cultural divide. In each of the 30 chapters, Erin Moore explains a different word we use that says more about us than we think.

If you're taking the IELTS exam . . . can you plan the many different types of Writing Task 2 essay? Can you turn these plans into a high-scoring essay? Can you structure your introduction, main body paragraphs and conclusion in a way that will achieve the score you need? If you don't know how to do this, you may be wasting all your other your hard work. Even for native speakers of English, IELTS Writing Task 2 can be a difficult essay to write. It makes a huge difference to your result if you can quickly analyze the task, plan your essay with relevant ideas and write it using advanced ...

A FUNNY and useful book for language lovers! There are many grammar and usage books that give advice on correct English. This isn't one of them. The Elements of Expression targets expressiveness as a goal apart from getting it technically right. Imagine the yawns a sportscaster would induce by announcing, "His bat struck the ball and the ball went into the stands," instead of "He took that ball downtown!"

★Great Dialogue Can Mean the Difference Between a Bestseller and a Bomb!★ Sharpen your storytelling by learning How to Craft Killer Dialogue. Ever wonder what techniques Elmore Leonard and Quentin Tarantino use to master the dialogue for their slick and highly quotable crime stories? Want to create the heart-warming introspection often found in the minds of characters like the ones in books by Judy Blume? Or maybe, you prefer to plumb the depths of layered subtext as powerfully displayed in the works of artists like Toni Morrison? With this comprehensive guide, you will find all those ...

In almost any career, you must know how to write - even if it's not part of your job description. But if you are a reluctant writer, producing even the simplest memo may be a struggle. Write Better Right Now is the springboard to get you ahead in any job, passion project, or situation that requires writing skills. No matter what you are called upon to do - blog posts, speeches, web content, press releases, or more - this step-by-step manual gives you the solid techniques you need to get the task done.

This book really makes you want to write! Whether you are starting your first novel or blogging up a storm, this book will make you a better communicator in the 21st century, the Age of Brevity and the Internet. If you can keep your writing brief and concise, you can save countless hours of frustration - for yourself and your readers. It's hard at first, but by mastering a few simple "tricks of the trade," you will not only keep it short, you will also discover new ideas, find new angles, and write with more zip. This short guide shows the way.