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• Author : Heather Cocks,Jessica Morgan
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 07 April 2015

An American girl finds her prince in this "fun and dishy" (People) royal romance inspired by Prince William and Kate Middleton. American Bex Porter was never one for fairy tales. Her twin sister Lacey was always the romantic, the one who daydreamed of being a princess. But it's adventure-seeking Bex who goes to Oxford and meets dreamy Nick across the hall - and Bex who finds herself accidentally in love with the heir to the British throne. Nick is wonderful,

• Author : Katie Wales,Wales Katie
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 13 November 1996

The first comprehensive book-length analysis of personal pronouns in present-day English.

• Author : Mel Evans
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 19 March 2020

The Tudors are one of the most well-known and powerful dynasties in English history. How they constructed and maintained their social magnificence and status, against a background of political upheaval, has fascinated people for centuries. This book argues that Tudor royal power was, to a large degree, textual. By examining examples of correspondence alongside lesser-studied texts such as proclamations and historical chronicles, the book explores the material and linguistic practices that came to symbolise monarchic authority in the Tudor era,

• Author : William Shakespeare,Peggy O'Brien
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 01 August 2006

Discusses effective methods for teaching Hamlet and Henry IV, providing techniques and strategies for teaching Shakespeare through performance.

• Author : Wendy Wan-Long Shang,Madelyn Rosenberg
• Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
• Release : 07 July 2020

A multicultural story full of heart and hilarity about what it means to be all-American. Lauren and her best friend, Tara, have always done absolutely everything together. So when they don't have any classes together in sixth grade, it's disastrous. The solution? Trying out for the school play. Lauren, who loves to sing, wonders if maybe, just maybe, she will be the star instead of Tara this time.But when the show is cast, Lauren lands in the ensemble, while

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 August 1896

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Cardoza Publishing
• Release : 19 August 2022

You will learn the basics of play, and how to find the machines and casinos with the most frequent and largest payoffs. Also includes insider advice on how to avoid losing machines, how to find the most profitable machines, plus a glossary and money management advice. 64 pages

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Quickfox Publishing
• Release : 19 August 2022

• Author : Amy Davis
• Publisher : JHU Press
• Release : 14 August 2017

Baltimore has been home to hundreds of theaters since the first moving pictures flickered across muslin sheets. These monuments to popular culture, adorned with grandiose architectural flourishes, seemed an everlasting part of Baltimore’s landscape. By 1950, when the city’s population peaked, Baltimore’s movie fans could choose from among 119 theaters. But by 2016, the number of cinemas had dwindled to only three. Today, many of the city’s theaters are boarded up, even burned out, while others hang on with

• Author : Ursula Lutzky,Minna Nevala
• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Release : 21 October 2019

This volume explores the concepts of reference and identity in public discourses. Its contributions study discourse-specific reference and labelling patterns, both from a historical and present-day perspective, and discuss their impact on self- and other-representation in the construction of identity. They combine multiple methodological approaches, including corpus-based quantitative as well as qualitative ones, and apply them to a range of text types that are or were (intended to be) public, such as letters, newspapers, parliamentary debates, and online communication in

• Author : Paul Bouissac
• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Release : 15 July 2019

Personal pronouns have a special status in languages. As indexical tools they are the means by which languages and persons intimately interface with each other within a particular social structure. Pronouns involve more than mere grammatical functions in live communication acts. They variously signal the gender of speakers as parts of utterances or in their anaphoric roles. They also prominently indicate with a range of degrees the kind of social relationships that hold between speakers from intimacy to indifference, from

• Author : Ralph E. Rodriguez
• Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
• Release : 08 May 2018

Since the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latinx writers. Extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of writers we label Latinx and the range of themes about which they write. Little sustained scholarly attention has been paid, moreover, to the very category under which we group this literature. Latinx Literature Unbound, thus, begins with a fundamental question “What does it mean to label a

• Author : Constance Hale
• Publisher : Crown
• Release : 13 August 2013

A fully revised and updated edition with writing prompts and challenges in every chapter 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

• Author : Jeremy Butterfield
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 26 March 2015

Why literally shouldn't be taken literally. Why Americans think home in on something is a mistake and Brits think hone in is. Is it OK to spell OK okay? What's wrong with hence why? Was Alanis Morrisette ever ironic? Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage is the world-famous guide to English usage, loved and used by writers, editors, and anyone who values correct English since it first appeared in 1926. Fowler's gives comprehensive and practical advice on complex points of grammar,

• Author : Sara Pons-Sanz
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 09 September 2017

How did the English language change from the Old to the Early Modern period? What effect do linguistic and stylistic choices have on a text? Why is it important to consider linguistic features together in a work? The grammar and vocabulary of the English language changed dramatically between the Old and Early Modern periods. These changes in language usage are explored in The Language of Early English Literature by examining the effect of authors' linguistic choices on the descriptions of