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Good Reference for English.......2007-09-29
I recommend this book to those who are seriously studying English as a foreign language. Not only does it explain the basics of grammar, but it also includes many drills that enable you to clearly understand each rule. The index in the back of the book is very useful.
I truly recommended!!.......2007-08-11
For those, like me, who want to learn english as a second language, could not have a better english grammar than this. I recommend!!
Best English Grammar book ever!.......2007-04-22
It is the best grammar book for people whose English is the second language and who always stive to perfect their grammar. This self-study book is truly meant to help a lot with grammar those who are in the intermmediate or advance level. The way this book is structured makes a big difference. It makes it possible to study grammar in an easy and interesting way. I highly recommend this book.
AMAZON PROBLEM.......2007-03-12
THE BOOK IS GOOD, BUT PROBLEM WITH AMAZON - WE RECEIVED THE HIGHER PRICED "NEW" BOOK FROM AMAZON DAMAGED. THE FRONT PAGES SEEM BURNED... IF I KNEW THIS I WOULD HAVE BOUGHT THE USED FROM OTHER PERSON.
Understanding and Using English Grammar (Third Edition).......2007-03-09
I love this book. English is my second language, so I am bad at grammar. I know more English grammar by reading this book. I recommend ESL student to have one.
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Very GooD!!.......2007-08-11
For those, like me, who want to learn english as a second language, could not have a better english grammar than this. I recommend!!
The workbook just make the learn stronger. IS worthy to buy both together like I did.
Excelent product.......2007-03-09
Excellent book. It was recommended to me by my english teacher during an avanced course of English as a second language. It is always an excellent reference book.
Great Tool.......2007-01-20
I just want to tell you guys that this grammar is the best one on the market, at least for me. I have tried several different products named "English grammar" but this one is simply the best in terms of explainations of all topics, exersices, and the "hands on training" that it provides(learning the English grammar by default).
Excellent book and very good seller.......2006-10-31
I 100 percent satisfied with the book and service. Thank you
Returns.......2006-09-07
El probema no es el libro, es la compania que lo distribuye. Yo lo devolvi y JAMAS me devolvieron el dinero. Les escribi y me contestaron una vez, he insistido y ya no me contestan. Para mi, son IRRESPONSABLES y poco serios, no recomiendo comprar .Kevin Tracy ,smalltownbooks,Esta es la persona que contacte y esta la empresa que distribuye el libro
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This is for fundamental only (black cover).......2004-10-03
upon receiving this book, i was very disappointed because it was for fundamental level only (a black cover). Without the picture nor detailed discription, I bought this book by mistake. This is not what I need/want. I was so upset:( I was expecting an intermediate level of chartbook by Azar.
so customers, be smart. Don't buy this book unless you are expecting a very basic level of grammar chartbook.
It's a Classic!.......2002-03-13
I've been teaching ESL for 16 years and developmental writing and reading, college level, for 10 years, and I strongly recommend Betty Azar's Chartbook as a reference book. It is written for the ESL audience, but I also use it in my writing instruction for native speakers.
I recommend it highly for ESL speakers who have finished their formal ESL instruction or who are in an advanced level. They should use it the same way they do a dictionary or thesaurus - as a reference book. There are numerous grammar explanations that are easy to understand. Azar provides several lists that students can use as a reference if the grammar rule/pattern is an obscure or difficult one. It has a series of charts for students to visualize the actual time that the different English verb tenses cover. Azar covers a great deal of material, but the book is only 140 pages total - small and thin. That makes it convenient to carry.
I also recommend it highly as a teaching aid when instructing native speakers in reading and writing so that teachers can more fully understand English grammar from the ESL perspective. When I teach developmental writing to college students, I find that I am oftentimes dealing with native speaker dialect issues, so an ESL explanation can be more appropriate. In addition, there are many ESL students in Freshman Composition courses, so the instructor needs to know how to help those students.
The Chartbook is a reference book. If you want the exercises, get the regular text or the workbooks. Azar has been criticized for presenting grammar out of context. I believe that is a valid, although not a shattering, criticism of her main texts. However, this is not supposed to be that sort of book. It is supposed to be a reference book, and the grammar will be out of context.
I recommend this book unreservedly.
Karen Keyworth
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In the Know includes 40 four-page units that deal with idioms in contexts such as communicating, money, and relationships; idioms that describe concepts such as danger, honesty, and success; and idioms based on key words such as colors and parts of the body. Based on extensive research in the Cambridge International Corpus, the idioms taught in In the Know are ones students will see and hear in everyday English. Each unit presents idioms, usually in a short dialog or story; the practice pages that follow are divided into three sections - Focus on Meaning, Focus on Form, and Focus on Use - which provide dozens of different exercise types to help students master the phrases. An audio CD with recordings of the presentation section from each unit is in every book. A reference section with definitions and examples from the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms gives students a resource for checking the idioms they've learned. An answer key is included.
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For the Language Learner and Below Proficient Reader.......2005-09-18
Great book to use for additional handouts in class regarding usage, transition, and your basic communication ideas for the writer's workshop. People from other countries do not get idioms like "pass the hat" meaning make a collection of money, for example. It's going to be fun to use this well organized book which has little two page dramas, with characters and a bunch of idoms that carry the dialogue. I haven't used it yet [beginning of the year] but have already zeroxed the first one, two page handout. When I get the class sufficiently managed behaviorally, that is when they know I mean business when I say I'm going to call their parents, I will begin using this stuff.
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Great.......2007-09-04
This book helped me to see english as a beautiful and easy language to learn.
She teach you in the first two charter the 12 main time tenses that you find in english. It was great.
after I read this book, I really understood what I was doing.
Excellent.......2004-10-29
I love this book, I am a Spanish native speaker person, but when I got this book, my mind woke up, then I recognized that language are differents but grammar essence is the same. I believe Azar is the best actor to learn English.
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"Her name was Sally Lockhart; and within fifteen minutes, she was going to kill a man." Philip Pullman begins his Sally Lockhart trilogy with a bang in The Ruby in the Smoke--a fast-paced, finely crafted thriller set in a rogue- and scalawag-ridden Victorian London. His 16-year-old heroine has no time for the usual trials of adolescence: her father has been murdered, and she needs to find out how and why. But everywhere she turns, she encounters new scoundrels and secrets. Why do the mere words "seven blessings" cause one man to keel over and die at their utterance? Who has possession of the rare, stolen ruby? And what does the opium trade have to do with it?
As our determined and intelligent sleuth sets her mind to unraveling these dark mysteries, she learns how embroiled she is in the whole affair. As riveting and witty as the sensational "penny dreadfuls" of Victorian England (but thousands of times better written), Pullman's trilogy (including The Shadow in the North and The Tiger in the Well) will have readers on the edges of their seats. Ruby is an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. (Ages 12 and older) --Karin Snelson
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In search of clues to the mystery of her father's death, 16-year-old Sally Lockhart ventures into the shadowy underworld of Victorian London. Pursued by villains at every turn, the intrepid Sally finally uncovers two dark mysteries--and realizes that she herself is the key to both.
"In Dickensian fashion, Pullman tells the story of 16-year-old Sally Lockhart, who becomes involved in a deadly web of events as she searches for a mysterious ruby. The novel is a page turner, peopled with despicable hags, forthright heroes, and children living on the underbelly of 19th-century London. The story's events are exciting, with involved plotting. Settings and characterizations are exquisitely drawn. The first entry in a planned trilogy."--(starred) Booklist. Reading level: 6.7.
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The Most Inspirational Book That I have Ever Read.......2007-04-17
I think that the Sally Lockheart books are the most amazing books that I have ever read by far. The characters seem so real to me that I was actually CRYING when Frederick died in the second book. I am now half way through the third book and am again totally hooked. I take on board that the characters may not fit in totally with reality in the 1800's but that just makes, in my opinion, the books even better. The in depth thrill and pace of these books are so amazing, that it just makes me want to go out and wright a fifth! I must applaud Philip Pulman on these books, a masterpiece in my eyes, certainly the best books ever written by him, possiably by anyone ever!
An adult book in a YA body --adult literacy read?.......2007-02-18
I enjoyed this book quite a bit. The writing is excellent, although the characterization can be a bit thin. As with some YA books, certain things are not touched on too deeply. Sally, a Victorian girl, just moves out of her aunt's house with nowhere to go and quickly finds a place, etc. Quite often things sort of just seem to happen rather than her being a "detective." The characters have attitudes that are quite modern.
None of this is bad, the story held my attention, but it just makes the book a bit lacking in depth. Younger readers will probably not be bothered by this.
As an aside-- I'm sure there are some American parents who want control over what their child will be exposed to, will be disturbed by some of the things in the book. Disney it ain't! This is what makes the book strange. It's like an adult book in a YA body. For this reason I think it might make an excellent candidate for those involved in adult literacy. Books that can hold the adult imagination and writing that is excellent, but easily read are rare. Just a thought.
the author turns to wordsmithing.......2006-10-30
In the "His Dark Materials" trilogy the author seemed to have started with a great but fixed quantity of ideas and proceeded to exhaust them. Well, this is what you have left: some pretty good wordsmithing. A twisty plot, a detailed setting, action, adventure, mystery -- but ... nothing else.
Sally and her friends (and enemies) are like detailed mannequins. They go through their paces and events occur, but it's all pretty schematic. Where there is depth, there is something unpalatable, as though the author has forgotten that the grim is not the same as the fascinating, it needs to be balanced with the imaginative. Go into dark places, but bring a light. We all see enough of the other, that's why we turn to art.
The opposite but no less annoying defect also appears. All the good guys are just so *super* you have little doubt they were constructed from lists of admirable human traits. Let's see, smart, brave, honest, attractive dah dah dah ... did I miss anything? Sally for example can add up figures in her head better than an idiot savant, and knows more about marketing than Andy Warhol. Not bad for an orphaned waif. And moreover she's a blond! (This is so incongruous it cannot be mentally imaged.)
Her new love interest is no better, a genius inventor who needs someone who can add figures and market his products, because in that department he's an utter moron! What a coincidence! Why, they were *made for each other*, literally and literarily. No surprise I guess that he would risk almost certain death to protect her, even though he only met her Wednesday before last!
If such simplicities are on behalf of young adults, then the whole thing should be played for laughs. Instead you're supposed to suck this up along with some really grim stuff which is just as unpleasant as the rest is unbelievable. If you're American, I think you'll find something distinctly British in this, which does make a weird sense in their culture, just not in ours.
3 stars because it still contains just a tinge of his old funhouse style. There are better YA books out there though.
The Ruby In The Smoke.......2006-09-29
The Ruby In the Smoke is a good mystery, and exactly what I would expect from Pullman. The characters are intriguing, and the sudden deaths make it very suspenseful. I felt very connected with Jim and Adelaide, as they showed quite a bit of personality. A good book is one in that you can't tell whether or not a person is actually good or will betray sometime.
But I gave it four stars, and not five, for a reason.
Mrs. Holland stands nowhere near as complex as Mrs. Courtier from His Dark Materials. Once beautiful, sucked into the darkness of an evervaluable object, betrayed by young love and turned evil... you get the point. Her subjects start as 1D evil creatures, toward the middle of their time in the book they seem like they may defect to the good side, then do something horrible and then die. This was a good formula to use for Hopkins, but carrying it out again with Berry was not as intriguing as it could have been.
I agree with that one person who said that the characters were standard deal. But they did have personality. It would have been intriguing to carry out the Van Eeden problem for another hundred pages.
Overall, the book was very skillful, and I would reccomend it to anyone mature enough. A little kid is definitely not a good person to read this book, due to the constant sudden death and significant drug use. The book also shows good word choice, but that also results in no little kid being able to understand it. It's a verry good book, as long as you don't focus on the little tiny out-of-context problems like some people did.
The Ruby in the Smoke, July 14, 2006.......2006-07-15
Philip Pullman has created a new character that readers can empathize with and root for during this suspenseful mystery. Sally Lockhart is a sixteen year old orphan girl that receives a strange note about the death of her father. As soon as she begins her investigation, more deaths occur. Sally becomes entangled in a web of mystery involving murder, illegal opium trading, and a stolen ruby. Sally has many nightmares, which she is unable to understand until she uncovers more pieces of the puzzle. The suspense builds as new characters are continually brought into the mystery, making it difficult to know who can be trusted.
The Ruby in the Smoke is a suspense filled mystery with descriptive characters and settings. Mr. Pullman paints vivid pictures, of the settings and characters, which draw the reader into the book. The continuous introduction of new characters and the changes in settings all add to the suspense of the book. This is a well written and intriguing story that is worth reading.
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Prompt service and good quality .......2007-07-22
I've purchased from Amazon itself before, but this was the first time I bought anything from a seller who lists used books on the Amazon site. I was a bit wary of it, but my order was received very quickly and the book was in great condition.
A keeper...Pullman's best work.......2007-03-12
I've read the Sally Lockhart series many many many times since it was recommended to me as a tween. I look forward to reading it with my kids as they grow.
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As her children and grandchildren began to launch out on their own, the author felt urged to record some of the treasured family recipes and history for posterity. This soon became a delightful pastime, and resulted in the addition of personal thoughts and inspirations the author had accumulated through the years. The large collection of recipes are the result of the generous sharing of home-loving friends, as well as those garnered while enjoying their love of travel. The pages are a testimony of the authors love for God, her family and the simple lifestyle she has lived and loved for many years.
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