Find Your Way With Words
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The Find Your Way With Words series is a set of handy, engaging, and gently humorous guides that explain the basic conventions of standard English, including spelling, punctuation, grammar, and many other aspects of language. Each book includes examples drawn from a range of text types and genres, to show how understanding language can help everyone communicate clearly and effectively.
This handy, engaging, and gently humorous guide tackles the important subject of word structure. It looks at a variety of topics, such as suffixes, prefixes, root words, and the use of dictionaries, and shows how understanding the structure of words can improve a person's reading, writing, and speaking.
This handy, engaging, and gently humorous guide tackles the important subject of sentence construction. It looks at a variety of topics, such as sentence types, clauses, and phrases, and shows how sentence structure can be used to convey complete ideas clearly in a range of text types and genres.
This handy, engaging, and gently humorous guide tackles the important subjects of punctuation, spelling, and capitalization. It looks at a variety of topics, such as punctuation within words, spelling rules and their exceptions, and homonyms, and shows why punctuation and spelling are so important for conveying meaning in a range of text types and genres.
This handy, engaging, and gently humorous guide tackles the important subject of word types. It looks at a variety of topics, such as parts of speech, tense, person, and agreement, and shows how understanding types of words allows the writers and speakers to give power to their communication.