English usage guides: History, advice, attitudes
This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals. Guides of this sort have a long history: while Fowler's Modern English Usage (1926) is one of the best known, the first English usage guide was published in the UK in 1770, and the …
Colloquial French grammar: a practical guide
by Ball, Rodney
fromBlackwell reference grammars
This volume provides a practical, non-technical survey of the principal areas where standard and non-standard French morphology and syntax differ in formal and informal written and spoken French. These differences are a striking feature of the language and present problems even …
This is the next best thing to a year abroad ... "Streetwise French" with audio CD offers you a unique opportunity to learn first-hand how French is actually spoken. With the help of more than 25 everyday dialogues performed by native speakers, you pick up on the idioms, colloqu…
This is the next best thing to a year abroad ... "Streetwise French" with audio CD offers you a unique opportunity to learn first-hand how French is actually spoken. With the help of more than 25 everyday dialogues performed by native speakers, you pick up on the idioms, colloqu…
Designed for both students and teachers, this book both informs the reader about current thinking and acts as a guide to further enquiry. It is intended for students and teachers of English as a foreign language and English as a second language.