The fun way to improve writing skills! Middle school students will enjoy this engaging introduction to proofreading. Each lesson is a short, humorous anecdote or letter, or crossword puzzle riddled with errors. It s up to your students to identify and notate the mistakes. Focuses on spelling, capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, and style.
100 Mistakes that Changed History: Backfires and Blunders That Collapsed Empires, Crashed Economies, and Altered the Course of Our World
From the Maginot Line to the Cuban Missile Crisis, history is filled with bad moves and not-so-bright ideas that snowballed into disasters and unintended consequences.
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Booher's Rules of Business Grammar
Proper use of the written and spoken word determines whether or not you move ahead in your career. In Booher's Rules of Business Grammar, business communication guru Dianna Booher identifies the top 101 mistakes made in emails, presentations, and conversations every day. She briefly examines each one and explains what you need to know in order to avoid future mistakes.
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This book is called "Errors in English Composition," because it chiefly consists of examples in which some error in Grammar, Construction, or Order occurs. The sentences, which the student is asked to "correct, improve, or justify," have been taken both from literature and from journalism, mainly, however, from the latter, and mainly from very recent journalism. Practice in working out the examples given in this book will, it is hoped, be an aid to such revision, by showing the student what kinds of mistakes he is likely to make, and in what way or ways such mistakes can be put right
Here is a list of errors that ESL students often make in the use of adjectives. Incorrect: She is more stronger than her sister. Correct: She is stronger than her sister. Avoid double comparatives. Adjectives of one syllable usually form their comparatives by adding –er to the positive. Longer adjectives take more. Incorrect: Bombay is ....
