Abused, Confused, and Misused Words: A Writer's Guide to Usage, Spelling, Grammar, and Sentence Structure
Have you been putting bullion in your soup? Is incorrect spelling starting to have a negative affect on your term papers? Do you wonder what someone is inferring when they tell you to pick up a dictionary? These are just a few of the commonly misunderstood words discussed and explained in Abused, Confused, and Misused Words, an entertaining and informative look at the ever-changing nature of the English language. An alphabetical list of words that are frequently misspelled or misused is accompanied by a style guide to usage rules that tells you how and why they can be broken.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 18 August 2011
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A Safe House
In Burke, Vachss gave readers of crime fiction a hero they could believe in, an avenger whose sense of justice was forged behind bars and tempered on New York's meanest streets. In this blistering new thriller, Burke is drawn into his ugliest case yet, one that involves an underground network of abused women and the sleekly ingenious stalkers who've marked them as their personal victims.
“[This book] reads like 1,000 Dear Abby letters...fascinating...but it explains the many aspects of domestic violence. It has a wealth of material that could be helpful to professionals who deal with domestic violence.”–"Dear Abby" Abigail Van Buren “I am grateful to Philip Cook for writing Abused Men. This is a brave book.... [The author] brings to bear in this book his knowledge as a journalist and his evident care and compassion for all victims of domestic violence.”–Erin Pizzey, Founder of Chiswick Women's Refuge, Author, Scream Quietly or the Neighbors Will Hear
In this third book in the series, Michael Lewis brings in a variety of colleagues who write about the "lexical approach" both from a theoretical and practical point of view.
An invaluable collection of activities and information for the contemporary ELT teacher. Clear references to the links between a lexical view of language and "learner independence" another much used and abused concept in ELT but never really implemented.
