Cambridge Publishers, 1961. — 418 p. If you're about to take off for a far corner of the globe where for the rest of your life you will hear and speak only Swahili, you won't need this book. But if every day of your life you're going to need your English in order to understand what you hear and read, and to make yourself understood, this book is for you. Language is your chief...
Third Edition. — Houghton Mifflin. — 8651 pp. — ISBN13: 978-0395448953. With more than 350,000 entries and definitions--including 16,000 new words and meanings; over 500 usage notes from our Usage Panel; 4,000 illustrations; an Appendix of Indo-European Roots; 900 synonym paragraphs; 400 word history notes; and more. The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language,...
Merriam-Webster, 1987. — 1565 p. — ISBN: 0-87779-508-8. This dictionary based on Webster's third new international dictionary and is meant to serve the general public as its chief source of information about the words of our language. The school or college student, the office worker, the home user — all will find this Collegiate a reliable guide to understanding the English of...
4th edition. — Learning Express LLC, 2009. — 209 p. This book is designed to help you improve your reading comprehension skills by studying 20 minutes a day for 20 days. You’ll start with the basics and move on to more complex reading comprehension and critical thinking strategies. Please note that although each chapter can be an effective skill builder on its own, it is important...
Nova Press, 2011. — 159 p. — ISBN13: 9781889057156; ISBN10: 1889057150. English offers perhaps the richest vocabulary of all languages, in part because its words are culled from so many languages. It is a shame that we do not tap this rich source more often in our daily conversation to express ourselves more clearly and precisely. Many vocabulary improvement products list...
Adams Media Corporation, 1991.
Lots of people need a quick and authoritative way to identify and define the most troublesome common words. The usual approach- stalling for time until you can grasp the context of what the person has just said-has its limits. If only there were a list, not of every word (after all, reading dictionaries is no one's idea of fun) but of the right...
Independently published, 2019. — 207 p. — ISBN: 1700183516, ASIN B07Z2SB6BB. You may have asked yourself whether there is some effective method that can make you speak English fluently, efficiently and with confidence. Well, there is such a method! Advanced English Conversations will first and foremost help you gain mastery and command of those tricky idioms and phrases that...
Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2004. — xviii, 943 p. — ISBN: 978-0-87779-930-6. This new edition of The Merriam-Webster Dictionary is the sixth in a line of Merriam-Webster paperback dictionaries which began in 1947. It is based on and preserves the best aspects of preceding editions, but it also offers much that is new, drawing specifically on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary,...
Author: LearningExpress Editors. LearningExpress, 2009. — 208 p. For students new to the rules of writing, or those who need a quick and easy refresher, this book provides 20 lessons that promote an in-depth understanding of writing in a short amount of time. This skill builder includes full tutorials in easily confused word pairs and using verbs for strong, active writing, a...
London: George Newnes LTD, 1950. — 155 с. Эта книга предназначена для англоговорящих намеревающихся освежить в своей памяти основные принципы грамматики, морфологии и стилистики, идиомы, особенности неправильных глаголов, в основном - сведения полученные в средней (британской) школе и успешно забытые.
Collins, 2001. — 322 p. — ISBN: 0-06-000664-1. Whether you write an occasional professional letter or a daily newspaper column, William Zinsser's On Writing Well should be required reading. Simplicity is Zinsser's mantra: he preaches a stripped-down writing style, strong and clear. He has no patience for excess (most use of adjectives and adverbs, he writes, just adds clutter) or...
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