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Three Little Words: A, An, and The
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Three Little Words: A, An, and TheAre your students constantly leaving out articles in English, or adding articles where they don't belong? This text-workbook will take the mystery out of these troublesome little words for your students, one step at a time.

Your students will discover the underlying rules.  Then they’ll learn the exceptions to the rules.  And then the exceptions to the exceptions.

Self-checking exercises in Three Little Words each step of the way help clear up the proper use of these seemingly unpredictable English noun markers.

 
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Basic Grammar Spelling
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Basic Grammar SpellingBasic Grammar Spelling

At its best, English spelling can be perplexing, especially for non-native speakers and writers. The following rules and suggestions are offered as aids. You will always be able to find exceptions to these rules, but most writers find them helpful.

Dear User, your publication has been rejected because WE DO NOT ACCEPT THIS SORT OF MATERIALS at englishtips.org. Please see our rules here: http://englishtips.org/rules_for_publishing.html. Thank you

 
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Expecting the Unexpected: Exceptions in Grammar
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Expecting the Unexpected: Exceptions in GrammarExpecting the Unexpected: Exceptions in Grammar

Every linguistic theory has to come to grips with a fundamental property of human language: the existence of exceptions, i.e. phenomena that do not follow the standard patterns one observes otherwise. The contributions to this volume discuss and exemplify a variety of approaches to exceptionality within different formal and non-formal frameworks.
 
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With Pen in Hand: Becoming a Better Writer
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With Pen in Hand: Becoming a Better WriterThe goal of this book is to help you become a better writer. Grammar is an uncertain subject, full of inconsistencies. Just when you think you understand a grammatical rule, you learn about several exceptions to the rule. Then you learn that there are exceptions to the exceptions. So, the rule you thought you had so clearly mastered fades into a mist of uncertainty.
 
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Three Little Words - A Foreign Student's Guide to English Articles
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Three Little Words - A Foreign Student's Guide to English Articles
Ночной кошмар многих изучающих английский - артикли. Эта книга поможет вам спать спокойно :)
В процессе чтения этой книги вы пройдёте 10 "шагов" на пути к пониманию английских артиклей.
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Are your students constantly leaving out or "overcorrecting" English articles? This text-workbook will take the mystery out of these troublesome little words, one step at a time. Your students will discover the underlying rules. Then they'll learn the exceptions to the rules. And then the exceptions to the exceptions. There are self-checking exercises each step of the way. Three Little Words makes clear the proper use of these seemingly unpredictable English noun markers. Suitable for high intermediate and advanced students in grades 8 through adult.

 
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