Packed with clear guidance on the nuts and bolts of grammar and plenty of examples, this text will help students master the fundamentals of English grammar and tackle written assignments with confidence. 60+ bite-sized units help students overcome common areas of difficulty, such as forming different tenses, using connectives to link ideas and build an argument, punctuating sentences and choosing the right words. Each unit is presented on a double-page spread, making it easy for students to flick through the book and quickly find the unit they need. Short, focused exercises at the end of each unit - with answers provided at the back of the book - make this text ideal for both self-study and classroom use. This third edition contains four new units on hedging, being critical and collocation. Improve Your Grammar is an essential resource for students of all disciplines and levels wanting to excel at writing, and can be used as a self-study workbook or on tutor-led grammar modules.

In A Grammar of Lopit, Jonathan Moodie and Rosey Billington provide the first detailed description of Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic language traditionally spoken in the Lopit Mountains in South Sudan. Drawing on extensive primary data, the authors describe the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the Lopit language. Their analyses offer new insights into phenomena characteristic of Nilo-Saharan languages, such as 'Advanced Tongue Root' vowel distinctions, tripartitite number marking, and marked-nominative case systems, and they uncover patterns which are previously unattested within the Eastern Nilotic family, such as a three-way contrast in aspect, number marking with the 'greater singular', and two kinds of inclusory constructions. This book offers a significant contribution to the descriptive and typological literature on African languages.

This book documents modern Baba Malay, a critically endangered Austronesian-based contact language with a Sinitic substrate. Formed via intermarriage between Hokkien-speaking male traders and indigenous women in the Malay Peninsula, the language has less than 1,000 speakers in Singapore and less than 1,000 speakers in Malacca, Malaysia. This volume fills a gap for reference grammars of contact languages in general. Reference grammars written on contact languages are rare, and much rarer is a reference grammar written about a critically endangered Austronesian-based contact language. The reference grammar, which aims to be useful to linguists and general readers interested in Baba Malay, describes the language's sociohistorical background, its circumstances of endangerment, and provides information regarding the phonology, parts of speech, and syntax of Baba Malay as spoken in Singapore. A chapter that differentiates this variety from that spoken in Malacca is also included. The grammar demonstrates that the nature of Baba Malay is highly systematic, and not altogether simple, providing structural information for those who are interested in the typology of contact languages.

ACERCA DEL LIBRO: "A Grammar Guide" es una serie para hispanoparlantes que han enfrentado dificultades con la comprension de la lengua inglesa. Esta obra es para personas de cualquier edad y escolaridad que necesitan comprender el idioma escrito, o escribir sus ideas en el mismo. Por medio de presentaciones sencillas entenderas como se organiza la lengua escrita basica, sus elementos fundamentales y el orden de palabras. Asi mismo, aprenderas la funcion de diferentes tiempos gramaticales con ejemplos bilingues funcionales para las diferentes personas gramaticales, que cubren una amplia gama de posibilidades. El dominio de una lengua es una habilidad fisica, a mayor practica obtendras mayor destreza y por lo tanto mayor eficiencia. Lo unico que necesitaras es paciencia y constancia para alcanzar tus objetivos. Necesitaras un auxiliar importantisimo, un diccionario, que te proporcionara el vocabulario que TU necesitas, no el que alguien mas piense que quieres. Te aseguro que con estos dos elementos combinados con tu trabajo cambiaran tu concepcion sobre el idioma ingles y tus posibilidades futuras. Francisco Zamarron ABOUT THE BOOK: "A Grammar Guide" is a book that can be used by English speaking persons to learn basic Spanish to understand it in its written form. You will be able to find grammar equivalences from one language to another through clear examples and practices. All you need is patience and practice to reach your goals. You will need a bilingual dictionary that provides you with the vocabulary you really need. If you combine these two powerful tools you will enlarge your future possibilities. Francisco Zamarron

The book prescribes the methods of preparation using flower extracts at home for treatment of an emotional trouble/illness/disease. Flower remedies work at mental level rather than the physical level. These remedies don't directly remove the symptoms of disease but work at basic level and uproot the cause of disease. This is a slow procedure of cure but the beneficial result it gives is more lasting. Though flower remedies have many similarities with homeopathy but the method of preparation is markedly different. It is believed to be more effective that homeopathic treatment. Flower therapies hold the notion that any source illness or disease is emotional in nature. Each emotion seems to have a particular energy love, anger, despair, appreciation, fear one can consider each emotion to have different energy spectrum. It is these negative energy negative emotions that are the source of disease in the body. These negative energies can be transformed into positive one through different vibrating pattern of different flowers for different diseases. The therapy involves using the vibrational patterns of flowers, soaked into spring water, exposed to sunlight before using the product to positively alter the negative effect the patient is suffering from. In this book, the author has given indepth information about common flowers, flowers' energetic and healing properties, and how they are associated with different positive well being and healing.

A Grammar of Prinmi represents the first in-depth description of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Pumi Nationality and the Zang Nationality (in Muli, Sichuan) in southwest China. Prinmi belongs to the Qiangic branch and is closely related to the extinct language of Tangut. Picus Ding examines in the grammar the phonology (both segmental and suprasegmental), morphology, syntax and information structure of Prinmi, with two sample texts and an English-Prinmi glossary provided in appendices. Some noteworthy features of Prinmi include a wealth of clitics (appearing as proclitic, enclitic, mesoclitic or endoclitic), a lexical tone system akin to Japanese, and a collection of existential verbs that discriminates concreteness, animacy, and location.

The Kurux Language: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon by Masato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey is a comprehensive description of Kurux, a northern Dravidian tribal language with two million speakers. Isolated in the Chota Nagpur Plateau of Eastern India, Kurux shows a unique mixture of archaic Dravidian traits and innovations induced by contact with neighboring Indo-Aryan and Munda languages, and has posed questions regarding language change and Dravidian subgrouping. Making use of first-hand materials from their fieldwork, Kobayashi and Tirkey analyze the complexities of the language in the grammar section. This book also contains transcribed and glossed texts, and a lexicon with more than 9,000 entries, and serves both as reference for linguists and learning resource for students.