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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! What are comparatives and superlatives? After reading this book, you'll have a much clearer idea and will be the best at forming these descriptive words! Brian P. Cleary and Brian Gable explain how these forms of adjectives compare nouns, through the cleverest rhymes and illustrations that are sillier than ever. Each comparative or superlative...
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"This new edition of Painless Grammar provides students with a lighthearted, step-by-step approach to understanding English grammar. Inside you'll find: comprehensive coverage of English grammar, including parts of speech, punctuation, examples on constructing sentences by using grammar rules, and much more; painless tips, common pitfalls, sample sentences, instructive tables and sidebars; brain tickler quizzes and answers throughout each chapter...
3) The grammar bible: everything you always wanted to know about grammar but didn't know whom to ask
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English
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A quick and easy reference guide to the English language, grammar, and usage answers a host of queries on verb tenses and moods, punctuation, capitalization, phrases, clauses, common and proper nouns, and other problematic language issues. A comprehensive, practical reference guide to the idiosyncrasies of the English language No one knows grammar like Michael Strumpf. For over a quarter of a century, as creator and proprietor of the National Grammar...
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Crown
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"A kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English, from linguist and veteran professor Anne Curzan. Our use of language naturally evolves and is a living, breathing thing that reflects who we are. Says Who? offers clear, nuanced guidance that goes beyond "right" and "wrong" to empower us to make informed language choices. Never snooty or scoldy...
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"This wise and entertaining guide by one of the great editors of our time offers timeless tools for making meaning clear. Refresh your writing. Unravel convoluted sales talk written to deceive. See through political campaigns erected on a tower of falsehoods. Fake news is but one of the pimples of a literate civilization under siege. Slovenly English! Billions of words come at us every day with unimaginable velocity and shriveled meaning, in social...
6) Nouns
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"This easy reader features and highlights the use of nouns within complete sentences. The title is complete with beautiful, colorful photographs and simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Amazon.
7) Verbs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"This easy reader features and highlights the use of verbs within complete sentences. The title is complete with beautiful, colorful photographs and simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Amazon.
8) Adverbs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This easy reader features and highlights the use of adverbs within complete sentences. The title is complete with beautiful, colorful photographs and simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
9) Adjectives
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"This easy reader features and highlights the use of adjectives within complete sentences. The title is complete with beautiful, colorful photographs and simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Amazon.
11) Proper nouns
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"This easy reader features and highlights the use of proper nouns within complete sentences. The title is complete with beautiful, colorful photographs and simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Amazon.
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English
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"A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care? In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking...
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English
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A surprising and entertaining explanation of how the words we use (even the ones we don't notice) reveal our personalities, emotions, and identities.
We spend our lives communicating. In the last fifty years, we've zoomed through radically different forms of communication, from typewriters to tablet computers, text messages to tweets. We generate more and more words with each passing day. Hiding in that deluge of language are amazing insights...
We spend our lives communicating. In the last fifty years, we've zoomed through radically different forms of communication, from typewriters to tablet computers, text messages to tweets. We generate more and more words with each passing day. Hiding in that deluge of language are amazing insights...
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"Grasping the intricacies of the English language doesn't need to be tricky, and this down-to-earth guide breaks everything down in ways that make sense--Revealing rules, tips, and tricks to eliminate confusion and gain clarity, English Grammar For Dummies gives you everything you need to communicate with confidence! Good grammar lays the foundation for speaking and writing clearly. This easy-to-follow book will help you become a more articulate,...
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"Few people can write on the English language with the authority of Bryan A. Garner. The author of The Chicago Manual of Style's "Grammar and Usage" chapter, Garner explains the vagaries of English with absolute precision and utmost clarity. With The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation, he has written the definitive guide for writers who want their prose to be both memorable and correct. Throughout the book Garner describes standard literary...
17) Pronouns
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This easy reader features and highlights the use of pronouns within complete sentences. The title is complete with beautiful, colorful photographs and simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. -- publisher website.
19) I yam a donkey
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English
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Confusion abounds when a poorly spoken donkey says to a grammarian yam, "I Yam a Donkey!" This is a humorous introduction the different tenses of the auxiliary verb "to be."