When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People: How to Avoid Common Errors in English
Ещё одно пособие по "оттачиванию" письменной и устной английской речи научит вас наиболее распространённым ошибкам, которые допускают в разговорах или при письме, чтобы вы могли избегать повторения этих ошибок.
Are you worried that how you speak or write is holding you back at work? Do you fear you're making frequent conversational errors, but just aren't sure what's correct? Ever stumble when choosing between "who" and "whom," "affect" and "effect," "lay" and "lie"? If so, then When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People should be at the top of your reading list. This comprehensive, easy-to-use reference is a program designed to help you identify and correct the most common errors in written and spoken English. After a short and simple review of some basic principles, this book is organized in the most useful way possible-by error type, such as "Problem Pronouns" or "Mixing up Words that Sound the Same." You choose how to work your way through, either sequentially or in the order most relevant to you. Each unit contains tests at the end to help you reinforce what you've learned.
'English Grammar: A University Course' by Angela Downing and Philip Locke Курс английской грамматики, как и следует из названия учебника, для первокурсников ВУЗов, у которых английский не является родным языком.
This comprehensive up-to-date descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and post-graduate students of English as a Foreign Language. It is also suitable as a background course for literature and discourse studies, since grammatical usage is illustrated with authentic texts, many of them from literary sources. Originally published by Prentice Hall in 1992, this text is now readily available world-wide from Routledge. Features include: *chapters divided into modules of class-length material *literary and other authentic texts and transcriptions contextualise structure *clear chapter and module summaries enabling efficient teacher preparation and student revision *tasks for individual study at the end of each chapter *answer key to tasks *comprehensive index.
ENGLISH IDIOMS, Sayings & Slang is a dictionary of idioms with a difference. The entries are alphabetical but the meaning and example are laid out across the page, inviting the reader to follow. Meanings are given in plain language, and examples are conversational, just the way people talk.
Over 5000 idioms are listed, including vulgar words and phrases, which are identified with [-B](meaning bad) so that ESL and EFL users can avoid embarrassment. Cross-references are in bold-face type for those who want to check out similar idioms.
This reference is useful — and interesting — for anyone trying to grasp and use common phrases and current expressions. Text uses mostly U.S. spellings.
English pronunciation on CD-ROM with Interactive Exercises and Answer Key
Интерактивный учебник по произношению от факультета филологии испанского университета UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA. Уровень Intermediate, британский вариант английского.
Классика лингвистики. Книга о хорошем стиле в английском языке, об основных принципах композиции, грамматики, правильном и неправильном употреблении английской речи и стиле письма. Четвертое (2000) и оригинальное (1918) издания.
The Elements of Style ("Strunk & White") is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the most influential and best-known prescriptive treatments of English grammar and usage in the United States. It originally detailed eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, "a few matters of form", and a list of commonly misused words and expressions.
When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People: How to Avoid Common Errors in English 
English Idioms: Sayings and Slang
English pronunciation on CD-ROM with Interactive Exercises and Answer Key
