Millions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 40 million times. Now she's turning her attention to improving our vocabulary―one smart word at a time―with Grammar Girl's 101 Words to Sound Smart. Are you often stumped for the perfect way to say or write something? Do you find yourself using the same words over and over? Grammar Girl to the rescue! This handy reference guide contains 101 words that will enhance your writing, adding nuance, subtlety, and insight.
Millions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 30 million times. Now she's turning her attention to improving our vocabulary―one word at a time―with Grammar Girl's 101 Words Every High School Graduate Needs to Know. Not sure whether your post-high school vocabulary is up to snuff? This handy reference guide is a great starting point for ensuring you know the words that will help you impress your college professors, hold your own among your peers, write killer papers, and simply sound articulate―a skill that will benefit you for years to come.
My Baby Can Talk - Sharing Signs (2005) Inspiring early language development - from simple gestures to first spoken words. My Baby Can Talk - Sharing Signs teaches babies to communicate before they can speak using sign language in a format that delights the senses while tapping into a baby's innate language capabilities. It takes babies and their parents on an inspiring discovery of twenty-eight words and signs that babies and parents love to share .. It is specifically developed to respect the developmental stage, attention span and intellect of hearing babies from 10 to 36 months.
When Diana: Her True Story was first published in 1992, it forever changed the way the public viewed the British monarchy. Greeted with disbelief and ridicule, this bestselling biography has become a unique literary classic, not just because of its explosive contents but also because of Diana's intimate involvement in the publication.
How and where to use 500 of the words that make you sound more cultured, worldly, and downright smart. Whoever said sounding smart had to be painful? It?s all in how you acquire the ?ten-dollar words? of English. Smart Words makes fast and smooth learning of words such as prelapsarian,sedulous, sybaritic and draconian. How? By sticking to ultra-simple definitions, then offering a memorable?and often funny? description of when or why to use the word. A sample sentence shows you how. And the phonetics are a snap.
