Booth, Thomas
Summary: This practice book overs the key grammar specified in levels A1-C1 of the CEFR, the international standard for language learning. Companion to to: "English for everyone: English grammar guide".
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 BOOSummary: "A comprehensive visual guide to English grammar with clear, simple explanations that are ideal for learners of all levels,"--page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 ENGBrandreth, Gyles Daubeney
Summary: A style manual for English speakers on both sides of the Atlantic identifies the common mistakes and correct usage of everything from dangling participles to transitive verbs. Our language is changing, literary levels are declining, and our grasp of grammar is at a crisis point. From commas to colons, apostrophes to adverbs, there are countless ways we can make mistakes when writing or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Woods, Geraldine R.
Summary: Provides information on grammatical rules and how to use them, discussing verbs and verb tenses, subjects, adjectives and adverbs, prepositions, interjections, articles, pronouns, and punctuation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley Pub., Inc. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 425 WOOWoods, Geraldine.
Contents: Finding the right verb at the right time -- got a match? Pairing subjects and verbs correctly -- Who is she, and what is it? Pronoun basics -- Having it all : writing complete sentences -- Pausing to consider the comma -- A hook that can catch you : apostrophes -- "Let me speak!" Quotation marks -- Hitting the big time : capital letters -- Choosing the best pronoun : case, number, and clarity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 425 WOOEnglish, Charlie
Summary: "This is a tragedy that begins in the halls of psychiatry and modern art and ends in the Nazis' first gas chambers. In the early 1920s, Hans Prinzhorn, a psychiatrist and aesthete, sought insight from the art of mental patients such as Franz Buhler. Buhler was a brilliant, well-known ironworker until his schizophrenia diagnosis, and his work was compared to that of Munch and Duhrer. Prinzhorn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700.943 ENGFrench, Marilyn
Summary: Present a history of women from prehistoric times up to the present day, examining the changing roles of women in different ages, and covering such topics as work, marriage, family, sex roles, religion, and politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4209 FRESummary: Looking at me, people don't expect a lot, Remi says. I want to prove them wrong. In this program a career specialist and a life coach advise Remi to base a profession on her interests and aptitudes rather than aiming for medical school largely to impress others. After investigating the day-to-day duties of a speech therapist, an editor for a French-language tourist guide and an assistant in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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French, Marilyn
Summary: Origins is the first of four volumes of a momental, readable, and unprecedented history of women throughout the world. The internationally celebrated author of The Women's Room, Marilyn French, spent over fifteen years with a team of researchers and prominent historians examining women's lives and activities in civilizations and societies spanning the ages. -Goodreads
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4209 FREBooth, Thomas
Summary: "[This book] presents more than 1,000 idioms and expressions in context, with clear, simple definitions and attractive illustrations. Work through the tightly focused practice exercises and listen to the free audio to commit the English phrases to memory and make your English more fluent and natural."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 BOOGaneri, Anita
Summary: Introduces French, discussing who speaks it and where, describing the similarities and differences between it and English, and offering some basic vocabulary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2012
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J FRENCH 448.2 GANSwick, Edward
Summary: The go-to guide for clear, precise explanations of all aspects of English grammar. As a beginning learner of English, you might find that grammar concepts can be confusing. To make progress with your English skills, you need guidance through tricky grammar areas. This book will help develop mastery. The more you practice, the more you become proficient in how you use English. It will help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw Hill Education 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.2 SWIFrench, Howard W.
Summary: "Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960.22 FREOstler, Rosemarie
Summary: "Standard grammar and accurate spelling are widely considered hallmarks of a good education, but their exact definitions are much more contentious -- capable of inciting a full-blown grammar war at the splice of a comma, battles readily visible in the media and online in the comments of blogs and chat rooms. With an accessible and enthusiastic journalistic approach, Ostler considers these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word OstlerSummary: For children learning their mother tongue, class is always in session. Drawing on the knowledge of linguist Marc Wimet, the Sorbonne's Jean Pierre Goudailler, and Benedicte de Boysson-Bardies, author of How Language Comes to Children, this program looks at the process of language acquisition at home, at school, and among peers in both city and suburban settings. Standard French and slang are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Genetic science holds the keys to life itself. How should this knowledge be used? Enhanced by outstanding 3-D computer animations and microscopic imaging, this engaging program featuring Dr. Cary Fowler, author of Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity, takes a balanced look at the biotechnological revolution. Among the numerous topics surveyed are genetic engineering,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Shea, Ammon
Summary: "The author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language "mistakes" and how they came to be accepted as correct-or not. English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together from a wide variety of sources and syntaxes, and changing over time with popular usage. Many of the words and usages we embrace as standard and correct today were at first considered slang, impolite, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428 SHEAnt, Adam.
Contents: Friend or foe -- Something girls -- Place in the country -- Desperate but not serious -- Here comes the grump -- Hello, I love you -- Goody two shoes -- Crackpot history and the right to lie -- Made of money -- Cajun twisters -- Try this for sighs -- Man called Marco.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SONY 1982
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ANTEnglish, Ashley
Summary: Whether you want to make pickles from cucumbers grown in your own garden or turn those berries you scored at the farmers' market into delicious jam, here's the book that will make it fun and simple--even if you're a beginner. Ashley English offers clear information to help you get started, how-to steps, invaluable troubleshooting tips, tons of inspiration, plus profiles of home canners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Pre EnglishSummary: Day-to-day use of English has impacted local languages everywhere, spawning the growth of variants such as India’s Hinglish and Singlish in Singapore. Do these variations undermine language, or do they enrich it? This program examines the emergence of hybrid forms of English and discusses their pros and cons. A push by the Singapore government to promote Standard English was met with fierce,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Bad English (Musical group)
Contents: Best of what I got / J. Waite, J. Cain, N. Schon -- Heaven is a 4 letter word / N. Schon, J. Cain, J. Waite, M. Spiro -- Possession / J. Waite, J. Cain, R. Phillips -- Forget me not / J. Waite, J. Cain, M. Spiro -- When I see you smile / D. Warren -- Tough times don't last / J. Cain, D. Roberts, J. Waite -- Ghost in your heart / J. Waite, M. Page, J. Cain -- Price of love / J. Waite, J. Cain --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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Place a hold to request this item.French, Paul
Summary: Chronicles the efforts of two detectives--one British and one Chinese--as they raced to find an Englishwoman's killer in 1937 before the Japanese invasion of Peking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 FRESummary: Three versions of the Judgment of Solomon story illustrate the changes that have taken place in the English language across more than a millennium: from Aelfric's 10th-century account of how Solomon's wisdom reached to the truth, through Middle, to Early Modern and Modern English. At each stage, the grammar and vocabulary of the pieces are analyzed, as are the social assumptions of the writers....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Celce-Murcia, Marianne.
Contents: List of figures and tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Transcription key -- Part 1. Pronunciation instruction in perspective -- 1. The history and scope of pronunciation teaching -- 2. Research on the teaching and acquisition of pronunciation skills -- Part 2. The sound system of North American English : an overview -- 3. The consonant system -- 4. The vowel system -- 5. Stress, rhythm and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1996