The secret to this writing success is not studying 200 grammar and style points in the comprehensive writing textbooks. Instead, this course – designed by an experienced university professor and published author with Oxford University Press – shows you the only sentence-level lessons you need to know to write well. These are the 7 most common problems found in people’s writing. These problems most likely lurk – like weeds – in your writing right now.
Growing up in California, Dennis Severs fell in love with the England he saw in old black and white movies. At seventeen he came to London, looking for a home with a heart. In 1979 he found one, a run-down silk-weaver's house in Spitalfields, and over the next twenty years he transformed it into an enchanted time-capsule, transporting us back to the eighteenth century. From cellar to roof, he filled 18 Folgate Street with original objects and furniture, found in the local markets, lit by candles and chandeliers.
A book is addressed to students preparing for Polish Matura Exam on extended level. The book contains all kinds of grammar and lexical exercises found in the exam grouped thematically as well as information about the exam and full key.
In Brazil a vote has passed to impeach the president, Dilma Rousseff. This is not the only difficulty that the country faces. We outline the other problems, as the countdown begins for the start of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Elsewhere, the Indian government has withdrawn its claim to the Koh-i-Noor, the first plastic-eating bacteria are found, beavers can now be seen in Stockholm's waterways and, in the name of science, some researches have been shaving ants.
Offering a unique perspective on the origins of American fiction, Cathy N. Davidson focuses not only on the early novels themselves but also on the people who produced, sold, and read them. She demonstrates how, in the aftermath of the American Revolution, the novel found a special place among some of the least privileged citizens of the new republic.
