Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Charles Harrington Elster
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How to Tell Fate from Destiny
“In this part-thesaurus, part-hilarious manual of style, Elster breaks down the most common mistakes of the English language.”—Booklist If you have trouble distinguishing the …
How to Tell Fate from Destiny: And Other Skillful Word Distinctions
If you have trouble distinguishing the verbs imitate and emulate, the relative pronouns that and which, or the adjectives pliant, pliable, and supple, never fear--How to Tell Fate …
What in the Word?: Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions about Language
Are you so sure about "assure," "ensure," and "insure"? Can you determine whether a knob of butter is equivalent to a lump or a pat or a scosh? Can you say which word in the …
Verbal Advantage
First time in book form! A successful program for teaching 3,500 vocabulary words that successful people need to know, based on America's #1 bestselling audio vocabulary …
How to Tell Fate from Destiny: And Other Skillful Word Distinctions
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Accidents of Style: Good Advice on How Not to Write Badly
Fasten your seat belt for a crash course in careful usage.... Just like automobile accidents, accidents of style occur all over the English-speaking world, in print and on the …
Test of Time: A Novel Approach to the SAT and ACT
Test of Time is a captivating time-travel adventure that incorporates vocabulary words from the SAT and ACT, boldfacing them throughout the novel and providing definitions in a …