This study guide is divided into three sections: grammar, usage, and punctuation. Each section begins with an explanation of what you need to know about the topic. Then you are given some practice questions similar to questions you are likely to find on Civil Service exams. Answers and explanations are included in the back of the book.
The Grammar and Language Workbook offers sequential language instruction along with extensive drill and practice in grammar, usage, and mechanics. This important tool includes a handbook as well as vocabulary, spelling, and composition lessons.
This is a workbook for practicing grammar, usage, mechanics, vocabulary, and spelling as well as composition. The explanations and exercises are adapted for grade 7 in US high schools, but can also very well be used for ESL teaching and reviewing (at the appropriate stage).
The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, 2015 Edition
For anyone who writes--short stories or business plans, book reports or news articles--knotty choices of spelling, grammar, punctuation and meaning lurk in every line: Lay or lie? Who or whom? That or which? Is Band-Aid still a trademark? It's enough to send you in search of a Martini. (Or is that a martini?) Now everyone can find answers to these and thousands of other questions in the handy alphabetical guide used by the writers and editors of the world's most authoritative news organization.
This work is a dictionary of words which cause genuine difficulty in definition and spelling. Each entry is followed by a simple phonetic pronunciation guide, and disputed points of usage are clarified.
This handbook for German/English/German technical translators at all levels from student to professional covers the root terminologies of the spectrum of scientific and engineering fields. The work is designed to give technical translators direct insight into the main error sources occurring in their profession, especially those resulting from a poor understanding of the subject matter and the usage of particular terms to designate different concepts in different branches of technology.
