An English grammar for Spanish speakers.

Grammar can be an intimidating subject. This guide helps you learn-- or relearn-- the essentials, and makes learning and using proper grammar simple.

"Crushing national Debt? Climate Change? No: the greatest danger to our way of life is the decline of grammar. Thus preaches the inimitable Mr Gwynne as he shows us the way out of this sorry state. "Grammar is the science of using words rightly, leading to thinking rightly, leading to deciding rightly, without which-as both common sense and experience show-happiness is impossible. Therefore, happiness depends at least partly on good grammar." So writes...

Provides guidelines for grammatically correct writing, including explanations for understanding the parts of speech, techniques for sentence construction, and a list of the most frequently misspelled words.

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The easy-to-use reference book gives you the 501 most common English verbs, alphabetically arranged, and conjugated in all tenses and moods; principal parts listed for all 501 verbs; auxiliary verbs--have, be, do--and their uses, a newly revised section on phrasal verbs, an additional 550 problem verbs and their principal parts, 501 verb drills and exercises. The bonus CD-ROM gives you: practice exercises in verb conjugation with answers, and a review...

"One hundred million podcast downloads say it all: Mignon Fogarty's kicky, practical, and easy-to-remember advice about style and usage has won her fans around the globe. Her first book, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and her weekly grammar podcast has been hailed by USA Today as "authoritative but warm." Here in tip-a-day form, Grammar Girl offers 365 lessons on language that are sure...

"The fastest way to strengthen your grammar skills is to build a solid foundation in the basics. Inside this book, you will not find a lot of pointless discussion. Instead, you get an original, step-by-step approach to improving your grammar, with important concepts linked together by clear explanations and helpful exercises. In the early steps, you will be an introduced to the fundamentals of correct grammar, allowing you to identify common mistakes...

"Harold Evans has edited everything from the urgent files of battlefield reporters to the complex thought processes of Henry Kissinger. He's even been knighted for his services to journalism. In Do I Make Myself Clear? he brings his indispensable insight to us all in a definitive guide to writing well. The right words are oxygen to our ideas, but the digital era -- with its TTYL, LMK, and WTF -- has been cutting off that oxygen flow. The compulsion...