May I Quote You On That

Author : Stephen Spector
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190215283
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book May I Quote You on That? written by Stephen Spector and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A guide to English grammar and usage for the twenty-first century, pairing grammar rules with interesting and humorous quotations from American popular culture"--

Author : Stephen Spector
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190215291
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book May I Quote You on That? written by Stephen Spector and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all use language in different ways, depending on the situations we find ourselves in. In formal contexts we are usually expected to use a formal level of Standard English-the English codified in grammars, usage guides, and dictionaries. In May I Quote You on That? Stephen Spector offers a new approach to learning Standard English grammar and usage. The product of Spector's forty years of teaching courses on the English language, this book makes the conventions of formal writing and speech easier and more enjoyable to learn than traditional approaches usually do. Each lesson begins with humorous, interesting, or instructive illustrative quotations from writers, celebrities, and historical figures. Mark Twain appears alongside Winston Churchill, Yogi Berra, Woody Allen, Jerry Seinfeld, Stephen Colbert, Oprah, Lady Gaga, and many others. These quotations allow readers to infer the rules and word meanings from context. And if they stick in readers' memory, they can serve as models for the rules they exemplify. The lessons then offer short essays, written in a conversational style, on the history of the rules or the words being discussed. But because English is constantly changing, the essays offer not only the traditional rules of Standard English, but also the current opinions of usage panelists, stylists, and language specialists. When rules are controversial, Spector offers advice about stylistic choices. A companion website features a workbook with practice drills. This book will appeal to anyone who wants to write well. It's aimed at those who are applying to college, taking the SAT, or writing a job application, an essay, or anything else that requires clear and effective communication.

Author : Randall J. Bedwell
Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781888952360
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book May I Quote You, Stonewall Jackson? written by Randall J. Bedwell and published by Cumberland House Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the words and statements of great generals that represent a period in history as far removed from contemporary experience as the way of life they fought to preserve. The statements in this volume speak of duty and principle, faith and doubt, bravery in the face of certain defeat, hard choices, and the qualities of leadership that made those men great. Their wisdom, contained in their words and actions, is an immortal testament to their dignity, character and bravery.

Author : Fred R. Shapiro
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300262787
Total Pages : 1164 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Yale Book of Quotations written by Fred R. Shapiro and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book —named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal “Shapiro does original research, earning [this] volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.”—William Safire, New York Times Magazine (on the original edition) “A quotations book with footnotes that are as fascinating to read as the quotes themselves.”—Arthur Spiegelman, Washington Post Book World (on the original edition) Updated to include more than a thousand new quotations, this reader-friendly volume contains over twelve thousand famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author and sourced from literature, history, popular culture, sports, digital culture, science, politics, law, the social sciences, and all other aspects of human activity. Contemporaries added to this edition include Beyoncé, Sandra Cisneros, James Comey, Drake, Louise Glück, LeBron James, Brett Kavanaugh, Lady Gaga, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Barack Obama, John Oliver, Nancy Pelosi, Vladimir Putin, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and David Foster Wallace. The volume also reflects path-breaking recent research resulting in the updating of quotations from the first edition with more accurate wording or attribution. It has also incorporated noncontemporary quotations that have become relevant to the present day. In addition, The New Yale Book of Quotations reveals the striking fact that women originated many familiar quotations, yet their roles have been forgotten and their verbal inventions have often been credited to prominent men instead. This book’s quotations, annotations, extensive cross-references, and large keyword index will satisfy both the reader who seeks specific information and the curious browser who appreciates an amble through entertaining pages.

Author : Stephen Spector
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190215305
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book May I Quote You on That? written by Stephen Spector and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all use language in different ways, depending on the situations we find ourselves in. In formal contexts we are usually expected to use a formal level of Standard English-the English codified in grammars, usage guides, and dictionaries. In May I Quote You on That? Stephen Spector offers a new approach to learning Standard English grammar and usage. The product of Spector's forty years of teaching courses on the English language, this book makes the conventions of formal writing and speech easier and more enjoyable to learn than traditional approaches usually do. Each lesson begins with humorous, interesting, or instructive illustrative quotations from writers, celebrities, and historical figures. Mark Twain appears alongside Winston Churchill, Yogi Berra, Woody Allen, Jerry Seinfeld, Stephen Colbert, Oprah, Lady Gaga, and many others. These quotations allow readers to infer the rules and word meanings from context. And if they stick in readers' memory, they can serve as models for the rules they exemplify. The lessons then offer short essays, written in a conversational style, on the history of the rules or the words being discussed. But because English is constantly changing, the essays offer not only the traditional rules of Standard English, but also the current opinions of usage panelists, stylists, and language specialists. When rules are controversial, Spector offers advice about stylistic choices. A companion website features a workbook with practice drills. This book will appeal to anyone who wants to write well. It's aimed at those who are applying to college, taking the SAT, or writing a job application, an essay, or anything else that requires clear and effective communication.

Author : Randall Bedwell
Publisher : Gramercy
ISBN 13 : 9780517219928
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book May I Quote You, General Lee? written by Randall Bedwell and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable two-in-one edition is a fascinating collection of observances and utterances from Robert E. Lee and the South's great generals and leaders of the Confederacy--Stonewall Jackson, A.L. Long, James Longstreet, Jefferson Davis, and Jeb Stuart--showing their pride, dignity, humanity, and respect for life in the midst of the horror of war.

Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1906924333
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Do We Quote? written by Ruth Finnegan and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near.Drawing from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the ethnography of speaking, Ruth Finnegan 's fascinating study sets our present conventions into crosscultural and historical perspective. She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable recycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing defi nitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing so throws new light on ideas such as imitation, allusion, authorship, originality and plagiarism .

Author : Sir Leonard
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 386479319X
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You May Quote Me written by Sir Leonard and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is eye-opening wisdom and advice in a nutshell that informs, entertains and excites;the basis upon which it was created was personal experience, commonsense and observation.

Author : K. S. Brooks
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781480213425
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indies Unlimited: Authors' Snarkopaedia written by K. S. Brooks and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Volume One of the Authors' Snarkopaedia, sentences have been painstakingly crafted together using nouns, verbs and other words, bringing you paragraphs of text. These paragraphs flow into pages of expert tips, advice and insight for authors at all levels of the publication food chain. Any book can claim to offer this type of information, but they can't give you what sets the Indies Unlimited Authors' Snarkopaedia above the rest: the "je ne sais squat" of the high decorated staff of the Snarkology Department at the Indies Unlimited Online Academy. Their groundbreaking and empirical research over the years sheds new and snarkified light on subjects ranging from book publishing and marketing to the nuts and bolts of writing and technology. If you like information to grab you by the throat and smack you in the face, the Indies Unlimited Authors' Snarkopaedia is the reference book for you.

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
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