The essential guide for all writers. With over 700 examples of original and edited sentences, this book provides information about editing techniques, grammar, and usage for every writer from the student to the published author.

This book presents a unified formal approach to various contemporary linguistic formalisms such as Government and Binding, Minimalism or Tree Adjoining Grammar. Through a careful introduction of mathematical techniques from logic, automata theory and universal algebra, the book aims at graduate students and researchers who want to learn more about tightly constrained logical approaches to natural language syntax. Therefore it features a complete and well illustrated introduction to the connection between declarative approaches formalized in monadic second-order logic (MSO) and generative ones formalized in various forms of automata as well as of tree grammars. Since MSO logic (on trees) yields only context-free languages, and at least the last two of the formalisms mentioned above clearly belong to the class of mildly context-sensitive formalisms, it becomes necessary to deal with the problem of the descriptive complexity of the formalisms involved in another way. The proposed genuinely new two-step approach overcomes this limitation of MSO logic while still retaining the desired tightly controlled formal properties.

McGraw-Hill's Essential ESL Grammar does more than cover the basics of English; it pays special attention to those irksome subjects that trouble even native English speakers.
Mark Lester, bestselling author of the most widely used college grammar text in the country, has developed an innovative method to help you conquer tricky subjects such as articles, tense, verb complements, word order, and more.

Verbal Review for Standardized Tests is designed specifically to review, refresh, and reintroduce essential grammar and verbal abilities skills.

Much more than a standard grammar review book, this guide is clear, concise, and easy to use, and its focus by test preparation expertsgives insight into the types of questions you'll find on your exam.

An excellent and extensive overview that includes a test-oriented:

• Grammar and Usage Review and strategies to the point of practice in:
  • Usage and Sentence Construction
  • Writing Timed Essays
  • Verbal Ability: Antonyms, Analogies, and Sentence Completion
  • Reading Comprehension

Our unique approach not only will review basic skills, but show you how to apply them effectively and specifically on standardized tests.

If you're taking the SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, PSAT, CBEST, NTE, LSAT, PPST, State Teacher Test, or any other standardized testwith a grammar or verbal-skills section, this book is designed for you!

 By providing instruction and practice of the 20 most troublesome grammar points, Top 20 helps students master the essential grammar they need to produce great writing.
This book includes: a variety of exercises show students how to find and correct common grammatical errors; top 20 can be used as a stand-alone or as a supplement to any writing text.
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