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Torn Wings and Faux Pas by Karen Elizabeth Gordon Pdf
Karen Elizabeth Gordon, in this engaging, Gothic, quick-fix handbook--an ideal complement to The Deluxe Transitive Vampire--playfully instructs her readers about grammar and style as she plunges them into her magical world teeming with a wildly imaginative menagerie of winged and terrestrial creatures. Six eccentric fictional authorities, including sex-changing Natty Ampersand and Medievalist Vargas Scronx, give the book a sense of send-up in addition to its trusty practicality. A farouche faun with cloven hoofs, black rats, sirens and sphinxes, turbaned serpents, dragons, brigands and a butler make their appearance in unforgettable sentences and imaginary landscapes, such as brooding Trajikistan, to beguile the reader through such confusions and corrections as dangling and misplaced modifiers, double negatives, parallel construction, and a voluptuous riot of word abuses and preferable usage. Gordon also tames such confusing grammatical beasts as the elliptical clause, split infinitives, and many more. Rikki Ducornet has drawn more than fifty whimsical illustrations that capture the eccentric spirit of the text. Torn Wings and Faux Pas makes the reader laugh out loud and shiver with pleasure while experiencing style, vocabulary, and the structures of language as a perpetual and fiendish delight.
Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon Publisher : Random House Value Pub Page : 128 pages File Size : 47,5 Mb Release : 1998-12-01 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 0517284774
Torn Wings and Faux Pas by Karen Elizabeth Gordon Pdf
Karen Elizabeth Gordon, in this engaging, Gothic, quick-fix handbook--an ideal complement to The Deluxe Transitive Vampire--playfully instructs her readers about grammar and style as she plunges them into her magical world teeming with a wildly imaginative menagerie of winged and terrestrial creatures. Six eccentric fictional authorities, including sex-changing Natty Ampersand and Medievalist Vargas Scronx, give the book a sense of send-up in addition to its trusty practicality. A farouche faun with cloven hoofs, black rats, sirens and sphinxes, turbaned serpents, dragons, brigands and a butler make their appearance in unforgettable sentences and imaginary landscapes, such as brooding Trajikistan, to beguile the reader through such confusions and corrections as dangling and misplaced modifiers, double negatives, parallel construction, and a voluptuous riot of word abuses and preferable usage. Gordon also tames such confusing grammatical beasts as the elliptical clause, split infinitives, and many more. Rikki Ducornet has drawn more than fifty whimsical illustrations that capture the eccentric spirit of the text. Torn Wings and Faux Pas makes the reader laugh out loud and shiver with pleasure while experiencing style, vocabulary, and the structures of language as a perpetual and fiendish delight.
The New Well-tempered Sentence by Karen Elizabeth Gordon Pdf
The basic rules governing the use of periods, semicolons, hyphens, commas, and other punctuation marks are illustrated by original explanations and humorous sample sentences. Reprint.
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire by Karen Elizabeth Gordon Pdf
Playful and practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit and the blackest of humor. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.
Garner's Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner Pdf
Painstakingly researched with copious citations from books, newspapers, and news magazines, this new edition has become the classic reference work praised by professional copy editors.
Today’s writers need more spunk than Strunk: whether it's the Great American e-mail, Madison Avenue advertising, or Grammy Award-winning rap lyrics, memorable writing must jump off the page. Copy veteran Constance Hale is on a mission to make creative communication, both the lyrical and the unlawful, an option for everyone. With its crisp, witty tone, Sin and Syntax covers grammar’s ground rules while revealing countless unconventional syntax secrets (such as how to use—Gasp!—interjections or when to pepper your prose with slang) that make for sinfully good writing. Discover how to: *Distinguish between words that are “pearls” and words that are “potatoes” * Avoid “couch potato thinking” and “commitment phobia” when choosing verbs * Use literary devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration, and metaphor (and understand what you're doing) Everyone needs to know how to write stylish prose—students, professionals, and seasoned writers alike. Whether you’re writing to sell, shock, or just sing, Sin and Syntax is the guide you need to improve your command of the English language.
Literacy and Learning in the Content Areas by Sharon Kane Pdf
The 3rd Edition of Literacy & Learning in the Content Areas helps readers build the knowledge, motivation, tools, and confidence they need as they integrate literacy into their middle and high school content area classrooms. Its unique approach to teaching content area literacy actively engages preservice and practicing teachers in reading and writing and the very activities that they will use to teach literacy to their own studentsin middle and high school classrooms . Rather than passively learning about strategies for incorporating content area literacy activities, readers get hands-on experience in such techniques as mapping/webbing, anticipation guides, booktalks, class websites, and journal writing and reflection. Readers also learn how to integrate children's and young adult literature, primary sources, biographies, essays, poetry, and online content, communities, and websites into their classrooms. Each chapter offers concrete teaching examples and practical suggestions to help make literacy relevant to students' content area learning. Author Sharon Kane demonstrates how relevant reading, writing, speaking, listening, and visual learning activities can improve learning in content area subjects and at the same time help readers meet national content knowledge standards and benchmarks.
My Dear Mother by Karen Elizabeth Gordon,Holly Johnson Pdf
This fascinating collection of letters between sons and mothers offers an intimate and unexpected glimpse into the mind and heart of the artist. Here are letters by over fifty writers, painters, and musicians, from boyhood to manhood--including Elvis Presley, Ezra Pound, E. B. White, Paul Cezanne, Henry James, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Richard Wagner, Victor Hugo, Jean Cocteau, Tennessee WIlliams, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
A feast for all food writers, The Resource Guide for Food Writers is a comprehensive guide to finding everything there is to know about food, how to write about it and how to get published. An educator at the Culinary Institute of America, Gary Allen has compiled an amazing handbook for anyone who wants to learn more about food and share that knowledge with others. Including a foreword by Mr. Tim Ryan, Senior Vice President of the Culinary Institute of America, this multifaceted guide teaches readers how to: * find appropriate libraries use catalogs, directories, bibliographies and periodicals and locate specialty booksellers. Chapters on the writing process provide real guidance on: how to write what resources are helpful and how to combat writer's block In the final section, the intimidating task of getting published is tackled with specific help in drafting proposals and finding the appropriate publisher. An impressive menu of resources, this authoritative reference is essential for every epicurean, from the food service professional to the ambitious home gourmet.
Nitty-Gritty Grammar by Edith Hope Fine,Judith Pinkerton Josephson Pdf
An easy-to-follow guide for all of your grammar needs. With clear text, appealing cartoons, and a focus on common grammatical errors and how to correct them, this little volume is a real gem that should find a permanent place with companies, universities, and anyone seeking a user-friendly guide to style and usage.
Bryan A. Garner,Distinguished Research Professor of Law Bryan A Garner
Author : Bryan A. Garner,Distinguished Research Professor of Law Bryan A Garner Publisher : Oxford University Press Page : 1306 pages File Size : 48,6 Mb Release : 2022-11-17 Category : Electronic ISBN : 9780197599020
Garner's Modern English Usage by Bryan A. Garner,Distinguished Research Professor of Law Bryan A Garner Pdf
The most original and authoritative voice of today's English lexicography presents a fully revised new edition of his beloved usage dictionary When Bryan Garner published the first edition of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage in 1999, the book quickly became one of the most influential style guides ever written for the English language. After four previous editions and over twenty years, our language has evolved in many ways, and the powerful tool of big data has revolutionized lexicography. This extensively revised new edition fully captures these changes, featuring a thousand new entries and over two hundred replacement entries, thoroughly updated usage data and ratios on word frequency based on the Google Ngram Viewer, a more balanced coverage of World Englishes, not just American and British, and the inclusion of gender-neutral language. However, one thing has not changed: in no sense is this a regular dictionary but a masterpiece of lexicography written with wit and personality by one of the preeminent authorities on the English language. To put it in David Foster Wallace's words, Garner's discussion of rhetoric and style still borders on genius. From the (lost) battle between self-deprecating and self-depreciating to the misuse of it's for its, from the variant spelling patty-cake taking over pat-a-cake in American English to the singular uses of they, Garner explains the nuances of grammar and vocabulary and the linguistic blunders to which modern writers and speakers are prone, whether in word choice, syntax, phrasing, punctuation, or pronunciation. His empirical approach liberates English from two extremes: from the purists who maintain that split infinitives and sentence-ending prepositions are malfeasances and from the linguistic relativists who believe that whatever people say or write must necessarily be accepted. The purpose of Garner's dictionary is to help writers, editors, and speakers use the language effectively. And it does so in a playful and persuasive way that will help you sound grammatical but relaxed, refined but natural, correct but unpedantic.
Garner's Modern American Usage by Bryan Garner Pdf
Since first appearing in 1998, Garner's Modern American Usage has established itself as the preeminent guide to the effective use of the English language. Brimming with witty, erudite essays on troublesome words and phrases, GMAU authoritatively shows how to avoid the countless pitfalls that await unwary writers and speakers whether the issues relate to grammar, punctuation, word choice, or pronunciation. An exciting new feature of this third edition is Garner's Language-Change Index, which registers where each disputed usage in modern English falls on a five-stage continuum from nonacceptability (to the language community as a whole) to acceptability, giving the book a consistent standard throughout. GMAU is the first usage guide ever to incorporate such a language-change index. The judgments are based both on Garner's own original research in linguistic corpora and on his analysis of hundreds of earlier studies. Another first in this edition is the panel of critical readers: 120-plus commentators who have helped Garner reassess and update the text, so that every page has been improved. Bryan A. Garner is a writer, grammarian, lexicographer, teacher, and lawyer. He has written professionally about English usage for more than 28 years, and his work has achieved widespread renown. David Foster Wallace proclaimed that Bryan Garner is a genius and William Safire called the book excellent. In fact, due to the strength of his work on GMAU, Garner was the grammarian asked to write the grammar-and-usage chapter for the venerable Chicago Manual of Style. His advice on language matters is second to none.
Strap in, ‘cause it’s a wild ride through Destiny, or should I say Middle Earth… Not long ago, Sheriff Jack Lang would have sworn there were no such things as vampires, storm witches (Tempestaeries), djinn or dragons. That was before he met Tempest Pomeroy, his sexy redheaded mail lady and trouble magnet. He’d fallen for her before he found out about her special abilities. But that wasn’t what turned his life upside down. His transformation into a supernatural being… Yep, that did it. Tempe had feared her supernatural nature would be a problem for Jack, who’d mistaken Destiny for a normal safe, small town. Turns out, Destiny is more para-normal then normal. But that didn’t explain why Jack left her in favor of haunting the highest levees in the parish. Sure, he’d received a shock, and Tempe's willing to do whatever it takes, but can she convince him to return to his life and to her? A stubborn man is one thing, but a grumpy, depressed twenty-ton dragon presents a bit more of a challenge. Fans of Destiny Paramortals say: “Tempest is one of the best paranormal heroines I’ve read.” “WOW…just wow! Give me some more!” “This is my new favorite series!” “OMG, I loved this book. Run don’t walk to the buy button.” If you like Amanda M. Lee, Molly Harper or Kristen Painter, try Livia Quinn. The series should be read in order: Storm Crazy, 1 Cry Me a River, 2 Eve of Chaos, 3 Blame it on the Moon, 4 Take These Broken Wings, 5 Blood Moon, 6
Amy and Jill . . . Two young women who briefly met as they slowly were heading toward the Emergency Room entrance at Griffin Hospital. Far along in their respective labors, they soon gave birth without any complications. A little girl, Samantha, was born to Amy, while a little boy, Drew, was born to Jill. In an amazing turn of events, both infants entered the world at the exact same time, down to the very same minute and second: 3:45:18 am. Coincidence? Perhaps . . . Fate? Who Knows? The truly unknown fact then was that these four lives would be irrevocably linked for the duration of their natural lives, as well as those of their loved ones. Many unexpected twists and turns soon begun to follow, each incident with umbelievable consequences and even more umbelievable outcomes. A terrible head-on collision, so violent that it caused both cars to fly in opposite directions. Three innocent victims in total, but there was only one survivor. Two happy spouses eagerly waiting to see their mates soon, completely unaware that for them the journey had just ended. * * * A nine-year old child, healthy one day and dying the next. A devastated mother, simply unable to accept what his pediatrician had just told her. Desperation soon followed the initial denial, and she vowed that she would fight tooth and nail, and for as long as there was still any breath left in her beaten body. Somehow, somewhere, she would find someone, anyone, who would be willing to help her little one. Stating that she did not care how, she went on to say that she would indeed find the help her little child so desperately needed, and would not give up until she found that one person who could make her child well again. She was willing to go to hell and back to achieve that! A ́casual ́ encounter with a handsome, charismatic stranger, who assured her that he could ́spare ́ the life of her child. This turn of events offered the distraught mother the help and hope she was determined to search for. What he asked from her in return, though, was so horrible that she had to fight hard not to recoil from him, as if he had just set her on fire. It was one sordid and sick proposition, and ́only up to her, take or leave it ́ but, unfortunately she was well aware that she could not simply turn around and run away, like she would like to. As vile as it sounded, it was the only option open to her and to her child, for his life depended on it. And she would be damned if she was going to let him die without a fight! Defeat was a bitter pill to swallow, especially if preceded and immediately followed by a silent barrage of self-loathing and self-pity. Complete and total inadequacy were never more blatant than at times like these. It was one hell of a choice, but that so-called choice was never hers to make, anyway. Not since she ́casually ́ bumped into her ́child ́s savior ́, the despicable creature with the cold eyes and an even colder soul, if it had one at all! * * * Connecticut, the weekend destination for New Yorkers who were ready to escape the hustle and bustle of their hectic Manhattan lives during the weekdays, suddenly became front page news from coast to coast. A string of unsolved rape-murders, discovered in a period of less than three years, soon spread terror among the residents of Fairfield and New Haven Counties, where the crimes occurred. The resulting shock-wave was unprecedented, for it was the state ́s first encounter with a serial killer. Six murders in total, and in spite of the massive manhunt that was set in motion right after the body of the second girl was discovered, the complete lack of leads had the authorities literally scratching their heads in disbelief. Six young and innocent victims and still nothing for the investigating task force to go by, other than the fact that all semen samples collected from each one of the dead girls was a perfect match. That led to extremely high levels of frustration among those assigned to find the person responsible for the brut
