How To Speak And Write Correctly

Author : Joseph Devlin
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447489659
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Speak and Write Correctly written by Joseph Devlin and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive guide to speaking and writing correctly, with information on grammar, sentence structure, writing letters, common pitfalls, comments on famous pieces of literature and their authors, and much more. Written in simple, clear language and full of helpful tips and hints, this text will be of considerable utility to those with a keen interest in linguistics, and it would make for a worthy addition to any personal library. The chapters of this book include: Essentials of English Grammar, The Sentence, Figurative Language, Punctuation, Letter Writing, Errors, Pitfalls to Avoid, Style, Suggestions, Slang, Writing for Newspapers, Choice of Words, English Language, and Masters and Masterpieces of Literature. We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.

Author : Joseph Devlin
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Speak and Write Correctly written by Joseph Devlin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a useful and practical guide book for English learners. This book is highly technical and full of invaluable information on the grammar of the English language, which is full of invaluable ideas on how to help the readers to be very well placed to communicate in English both written and the spoken word.

Author : Rudolf Flesch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780451141934
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Write, Speak, and Think More Effectively written by Rudolf Flesch and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers a number of ways to communicate more precisely and effectively with a concentration of writing and speaking.

Author : C. E. M. Joad
Publisher : READ BOOKS
ISBN 13 : 9781443718844
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Write, Think and Speak Correctly written by C. E. M. Joad and published by READ BOOKS. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTRODUCTORY - The man who said that language was given to us to conceal our thoughts was a diplomat and a cynic. Admicdly, diplomatists, politicians and propagandists find it expedient to put vvhat they have to say in language which can be interpreted in different ways and there are occasions when most of us ordinary Folk are glad to take advantage of the opportunity language gives us to disguise our true feelings or intentions. But if this were the sole object of language, or if we were to use it with this object habitually, the confusion of Babel would be worse confounded, and ordinary human relations would soon be reduced to complete chaos, until a nore reliable form of oral and written comnunication was devised. No, the cynical diplomat I referred to just now was not really in earnest in fact, he was only drawing attention to an accidental or acccidental defect in an instrument which has been devised and orged by the labour of generations to enable people to understand me another. Language indeed is the best instrument for intelligible communication we possess. It is not perfect by any means it has ts defects and it has its drawbacks. Its drawbacks are naturally inherent in the spoken and written word we may not be able to remove thern, but we can do our best to neutralize them. But its iefects and shortcomings we can all help to remove. We can each of us in our own humble way help to improve and perfect language, with the object of making it a fuller, clearer and more rational means of reaching mutual understanding.

Author : Rita Wilson & K. Aggarwal & M. Gowel
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9352834232
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Self-Learning English Course with Activities  4 written by Rita Wilson & K. Aggarwal & M. Gowel and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAT000000 [BISAC]; MAT008000 [BISAC]

Author : Joseph Joseph Devlin
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781503264519
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Speak and Write Correctly written by Joseph Joseph Devlin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I found this book by accident while browsing through a now-defunct Los Angeles bookstore/cafe. It was the luckiest accident of my life. At that point I had been a professional writer for more than twenty years, but I rarely enjoyed my work, and I felt all of it was disposable in one way or another. At first, reading this book gave me an incredible, if unfamiliar, feeling of joy and self-confidence. Afterwards, I began to surprise the hell out of myself in terms of what I was able to accomplish. This little book is very practical and precise. If youve forgotten your grammar lessons, it begins by explaining the rudimentary parts of speech: noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb. Then it move on to the sentence. What makes a sentence a sentence and not a clause; and just what is the difference between a clause and a phrase. Do you know!? I do now! Joseph Devlin tells us, Apart from their grammatical construction there can be no fixed rules for the formation of sentences. The best plan is to follow the best authors and these masters of language will guide you safely along the way. The essential paragraph allows you to contain all the thoughts on a single idea in one area and then blessedly separate it from the next bit of writing. A solid page of printed matter is distasteful to the reader, it taxes the eye and tends towards the weariness of monotony... There is a chapter devoted to figurative language: simile, metaphor, personification, allegory, synecdoche, metonymy, hyperbole... Really essential components to make writing interesting. Then Devlin delves into puncutation. You get the idea, a concise book that covers a truck load of good grammar taught well.

Author : Joseph Devlin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781522970453
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Speak and Write Correctly (Illustrated) written by Joseph Devlin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book on improving eloquence, proficiency and grammar in everyday communication. 'How to Speak and Write Correctly' is not a manual of the styles to use in speaking and writing, nor is it a manual for grammar. It is a simple, useful book for helping ordinary people in effective communication. It lays down and explains broad rules of communication, further giving useful tips for effective communication. The book also lists common mistakes in communication and offers suggestions on how best to avoid them. Joseph Devlin, also known as Joe Devlin, (13 February 1871 - 18 January 1934) was an Irish journalist and influential nationalist politician. He was a member of parliament (MP) for the Irish Parliamentary Party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and later a Nationalist Party MP in the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

Author : Robert Lane Greene
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0440339766
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Are What You Speak written by Robert Lane Greene and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An insightful, accessible examination of the way in which day-to-day speech is tangled in a complicated web of history, politics, race, economics and power." - Kirkus What is it about other people’s language that moves some of us to anxiety or even rage? For centuries, sticklers the world over have donned the cloak of authority to control the way people use words. Now this sensational new book strikes back to defend the fascinating, real-life diversity of this most basic human faculty. With the erudite yet accessible style that marks his work as a journalist, Robert Lane Greene takes readers on a rollicking tour around the world, illustrating with vivid anecdotes the role language beliefs play in shaping our identities, for good and ill. Beginning with literal myths, from the Tower of Babel to the bloody origins of the word “shibboleth,” Greene shows how language “experts” went from myth-making to rule-making and from building cohesive communities to building modern nations. From the notion of one language’s superiority to the common perception that phrases like “It’s me” are “bad English,” linguistic beliefs too often define “us” and distance “them,” supporting class, ethnic, or national prejudices. In short: What we hear about language is often really about the politics of identity. Governments foolishly try to police language development (the French Academy), nationalism leads to the violent suppression of minority languages (Kurdish and Basque), and even Americans fear that the most successful language in world history (English) may be threatened by increased immigration. These false language beliefs are often tied to harmful political ends and can lead to the violation of basic human rights. Conversely, political involvement in language can sometimes prove beneficial, as with the Zionist revival of Hebrew or our present-day efforts to provide education in foreign languages essential to business, diplomacy, and intelligence. And yes, standardized languages play a crucial role in uniting modern societies. As this fascinating book shows, everything we’ve been taught to think about language may not be wrong—but it is often about something more than language alone. You Are What You Speak will certainly get people talking.

Author : Joseph Devlin
Publisher : Full Moon Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated) written by Joseph Devlin and published by Full Moon Publications. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book on improving eloquence, proficiency and grammar in everyday communication. ‘How to Speak and Write Correctly’ is not a manual of the styles to use in speaking and writing, nor is it a manual for grammar. It is a simple, useful book for helping ordinary people in effective communication. It lays down and explains broad rules of communication, further giving useful tips for effective communication. The book also lists common mistakes in communication and offers suggestions on how best to avoid them. Joseph Devlin, also known as Joe Devlin, (13 February 1871 – 18 January 1934) was an Irish journalist and influential nationalist politician. He was a member of parliament (MP) for the Irish Parliamentary Party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and later a Nationalist Party MP in the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

Author : Joseph Devlin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781974171736
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Speak and Write Correctly written by Joseph Devlin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n the preparation of this little work the writer has kept one end in view, viz.: To make it serviceable for those for whom it is intended, that is, for those who have neither the time nor the opportunity, the learning nor the inclination, to peruse elaborate and abstruse treatises on Rhetoric, Grammar, and Composition. To them such works are as gold enclosed in chests of steel and locked beyond power of opening. This book has no pretension about it whatever, - it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric, expatiating on the dogmas of style, nor a Grammar full of arbitrary rules and exceptions. It is merely an effort to help ordinary, everyday people to express themselves in ordinary, everyday language, in a proper manner. Some broad rules are laid down, the observance of which will enable the reader to keep within the pale of propriety in oral and written language. Many idiomatic words and expressions, peculiar to the language, have been given, besides which a number of the common mistakes and pitfalls have been placed before the reader so that he may know and avoid them. The writer has to acknowledge his indebtedness to no one in particular, but to all in general who have ever written on the subject. The little book goes forth - a finger-post on the road of language pointing in the right direction. It is hoped that they who go according to its index will arrive at the goal of correct speaking and writing.