This study presents a comprehensive syntactic and semantic analysis of a geographically balanced corpus of written and spoken texts, in contemporary Scots (including the author's own field recordings), amply illustrated with examples, thus making a major contribution to the field of English dialect grammar.
FCE-CAE OPEN CLOZE MADE EASY (preview but useful) This is the book that will help you pass the second part of the Cambridge Use of English test, i.e. the always difficult open cloze task. It contains detailed explanations about why you should choose one word rather that another and why , in different sample texts. Easy to understand grammar and punctuation explanations with examples , will help you to complete this task successfully. There are also some very specific techniques or tricks that will help you to notice typical scenarios and decide on your answers.
As in previous editions, the focus in INTRODUCTORY ALGEBRA remains on the Aufmann Interactive Method (AIM). Students are encouraged to be active participants in the classroom and in their own studies as they work through the How To examples and the paired Examples and You Try It problems. The role of "active participant" is crucial to success. Presenting students with worked examples, and then providing them with the opportunity to immediately work similar problems, helps them build their confidence and eventually master the concepts.
Distinguished by its superior allied health focus and integration of technology, Seager and Slabaugh's ORGANIC AND BIOCHEMISTRY FOR TODAY, 8E, International Edition meets students' needs through diverse applications, examples, boxes, interactive technology tools, and -- new to this edition -- real life case studies.
With over twenty percent more material, a must for any lover of distinctive words. This entertaining and informative reference features sophisticated and surprising alternatives to common words together with no-fail guides to usage. Avoiding traditional thesauruses’ mundane synonym choices, Peter E. Meltzer puts each word—whether it’s protrepic, apostrophize, iracund, or emulous—in context by using examples from a broad range of contemporary books, periodicals, and newspapers.
