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Did you just end your last memo to your boss "CU L8R?"
Do mysterious voices tell you to use "their" and "there" interchangeably? Don't know the difference between "its" and "it's?" Suffer no more--help is on the way!
Discover:
• The top 50 most misspelled words and how to fix them
• 50+ "hard" words that'll immediately power up your spelling IQ
• Painless step-by-step exercises
• Memory joggers
. . . And much more!
Using amusing quizzes,...
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Even the manliest will suffer from ailments Sweat imparts body odour to armpits He has money aplenty to pay the penalty When education is auctioned and teachers become cheaters, naturally the student will be stunted Does the lameness of nameless salesmen affect their maleness? The gardener garnered the crop The getaway car was parked near the gateway When the designer was asked to redesign, he promptly resigned On being swindled ones faith in others...
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No longer do students have to try to memorize long boring vocabulary lists by using archaic rote memory techniques. Vocabulary Cartoons makes learning vocabulary fun and easy by using brain-friendly memory aids in the form of visual and rhyming mnemonics. A mnemonic is a device used to improve memory. It helps you remember something by associating it with something you already know. Mnemonic devices have been used in many forms including keywords,...
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This book is a product of the love and passion of the Bisaya language and its intent to preserve it. The authors wish to share this desire to fellow Bisaya and other Bisaya-Speaking tribes in the Visayas and Mindanao Regions, where the Bisaya vernacular is widely, spoken and understood.
This book, named Alforque's Bisaya-English Thesaurus-Dictionary is, intended to enrich the user's vocabulary and mastery of both the Bisaya and English languages...
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THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO ENGLISH SPELLING RULES is the most complete and detailed guide to English spelling rules ever written.
Most people consider English spelling to be an intimidating tangle but John Fulford easily and carefully leads the reader through the linguistic maze and proves that there is a great deal of logic to English spelling.
Written for the layperson, the book explains all and every spelling problem with plentiful examples and illuminating...
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Peterson's egghead's Guide to Vocabulary will help students improve the range of their vocabulary, boost their scores on verbal ability tests, and improve their diction on any writing assignment. With the help of Peterson's new character, egghead, students can strengthen their vocabulary with narrative cartoons and graphics. Along the way there are plenty of verbal lessons and exercises, making this the perfect guide for students struggling to develop...
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Whether it's on a school level or business level, a good command over a language, especially English is always an add on to one's persona and a great advantage. This command over any language comes naturally when one is good with words and a thorough and extensive knowledge of words always helps build a stronger vocabulary. The knowledge of Vocabulary must be as deep as it is wide. This book primarily aims in enhancing the readers' vocabulary, not...
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Did you just end your last memo to your boss "CU L8R?"
Do mysterious voices tell you to use "their" and "there" interchangeably? Don't know the difference between "its" and "it's?" Suffer no more--help is on the way!
Discover:
• The top 50 most misspelled words and how to fix them
• 50+ "hard" words that'll immediately power up your spelling IQ
• Painless step-by-step exercises
• Memory joggers
. . . And much more!
Using amusing...
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From aboiement to zooerastia, a guided tour of the lantrified underbelly of the English language
This unusual, un-put-downable little volume by Peter Novobatzky and Ammon Shea collects more than three hundred of the English language's most disgusting, offensive, and obscene words--words that have fallen out of common usage but will no doubt delight, amuse, and in some cases prove surprisingly useful. Who hasn't searched for the right word to describe...
10) Slang Dictionary
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Slang is gradually taking its place in everyday language. More and more people are recognizing slang's amusing, colourful and descriptive properties and finding that slang is often more expressive than the English language. Slang is becoming a language of its own and is spreading silently and unobtrusively into all walks of life. It's surprising how many words that are considered to be normal English were originally slang words.
11) Aussie Slang
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G'day, mate!
For the Yanks and the Pommies who were posted to Australia during WWII, these Aussie Slang words and phrases may bring back some good old memories.
Regards Your Cobber
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Collins Easy Learning English Spelling is suitable for anyone who wants to improve their spelling and write more accurately and impressively. By describing the important features of English spelling and rules to use, this e-book makes spelling easy.
Using simple explanations and corpus examples, Collins Easy Learning English Spelling describes the patterns and rules you need to understand and predict how words are spelt in English. It also provides...
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Learning the lingo used in the United States can be hard enough for a native speaker, but its even more daunting for immigrants. Jimmy Gyasi Boateng, a native of Ghana, has been living in the US since 1978long enough to successfully adapt to life in a new place. Determining how to use vocabulary has been critical to his success. Learn how to use certain words and phrases and overcome problems that confront many speakers of English as a second language...
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English spelling is complex, confusing, and often seems illogical. Teaching English spelling often seems a thankless task. No matter what techniques the teacher or parent uses, the results are often disappointing.
This book, written by an experienced English teacher and the author of The Complete Guide to English Spelling Rules, should bring a sigh of relief to those teachers and parents who struggle to teach their students how to spell and keep...
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This book explores an aspect of the rich heritage of the English language - the deriving of words from the names of people, e.g., sandwich, wellington, mackintosh, ampere, watt, volt. Eponyms are the people who give their names to words. Most eponymous words derive from a person's surname: boycott, from the Irish landlord Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott, dahlia, from the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl, the sousaphone, from the American bandmaster...
16) English Spelling
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Collins Webster's Easy Learning Spelling is suitable for anyone who wants to improve their spelling and write more accurately and impressively. By describing the important features of English spelling, rules to use, and pitfalls to avoid, this e-book makes spelling easy. Using simple explanations, backed up with examples to demonstrate each point, Collins Webster's Easy English Spelling describes the patterns and rules you need to understand and predict...
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After publishing our first book, teachers loved it so much they wanted more words. Just like the first book students, no longer have to try to memorize long boring vocabulary lists by using archaic rote memory techniques. Vocabulary Cartoons II makes learning vocabulary fun and easy by using brain-friendly memory aids in the form of visual and rhyming mnemonics. A mnemonic is a device used to improve memory. It helps you remember something by associating...
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A tool to enable Americans to read printed Russian (Cyrillic) contemporary literature, On-line newspapers, printed materials, etc. Extremely comprehensive listings of Composite word/terms, Word stems and their grammatically defining endings, Uniquely phoneticized words, and unique word/terms found in no other published American source. Translations are structured to firstly list the most common American translation, followed by secondary translations,...
19) I Tok U Tok
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I Tok U Tok is a series of 50 conversations proven to effectively help ESL students hone their language skills. There are over 640 questions on a variety of topics that ESL students will easily identify with. The conversations are designed to challenge and engage ESL students as they strive to confidently express themselves in the same way they would in their first language.
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The...ology Quiz Book will help you build a versatile vocabulary through amusement. So what is an...ology? Simply stated: An...ology is a discipline of study--a science or other branch of knowledge--as indicated by having the...ology suffix. The origin of the suffix appeared between1795-1805; extracted from words like biology, geology, theology where the element...logy is preceded by -o-. Hence, we have...ology. Each page contains one...ology word....
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