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A community portal about English language with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: English is the most widely taught and understood language in the world, and sometimes is described as a lingua franca . It is a widely distributed language originating in England that is currently the primary language of several countries. It is extensively used as a second language and as an official language in many other countries. Although Modern Standard Chinese has more mother-tongue speakers English is used by more people as a second or foreign language, putting the total number of English-speakers worldwide at well over one billion.

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ESL English Advanced Learners Megapack + Audio Updated

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ESL English Advanced Learners Megapack + Audio Updated | 3 GB Rich collection of dictionaries and textbooks for elementary and advanced learners. There are various publishers and textbooks included plus audio. This DVD offers the most important ESL textbooks that an advanced ESL English student might need. We have also included the best ESL dictionary – Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 7e – that comes together with Oxford Wordfinder, which is an electronic version of the excellent language activator dictionary. This dictionary runs on Linux too. This is an update which adds a few new titles and renames, fixes or enhances some pdfs that were ... Read Full Story

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Parts of Speech Worksheets

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Parts of Speech Worksheets . You can teach the 8 parts of speech in many different ways, but it is important for the learner to see the different parts of speech used in the context of a sentence to see how they relate to each other. Parts of Speech Worksheets - Click Here The following list will give you a brief overview of the eight parts of speech and their definitions: Verb - Action or state of being Noun - Person, Place, Thing, or Idea Adjective - Describes a noun Adverb - Describes a verb, adjective, or adverb Pronoun - Replaces a noun Preposition ... Read Full Story

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Longman Dictionary Of Contemporary English new 2CD Edition

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Your link to living language · 155,000 natural examples bring English to life · British and American pronunciations of headwords, including people and place names · NEW 88,000 spoken example sentences pronounced on the CD-ROM · 1 million additional sentences from books and newspapers · 3000 most frequent words in spoken and written English highlighted · 4000 new words and meanings Reading and Writing solutions · 207,000 words, phrases and meanings – including free encyclopedia on CD-ROM · NEW Longman Writing Assistant – write correct English first time, every time · Choose the right word with Longman Language Activator® free on the CD-ROM · ... Read Full Story

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McGraw-Hill's Essential ESL Grammar: A Handbook for Intermediate and Advanced ESL Students

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From: morphosyntax.blogspot.com

Get expert instruction on. English basics and a little extra help on the. more tricky grammar McGraw-Hill�s Essential ESL Grammar does more than. cover the basics of English; it pays special attention to. those irksome subjects that trouble even native English. speakers. Mark Lester, bestselling author of the most. widely used college grammar text in the country, has. developed an innovative method to help you. conquer tricky subjects such as articles, tense, verb. complements, word order, and more. Read Full Story

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No-No Words #2: Why & How To Fix Them

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From: wordvessel.blogspot.com

In these series of posts, I'm sharing with you the words I try to avoid as much as possible when writing. In the first post on No-No Words , I discussed character names, pronouns and 'to be' verbs. Here are a few other things I watch out for: Weak Verbs: Weak verbs are boring and tend to be overused. Every writer's list will be somewhat different, but we also use a lot of the same weak verbs. Here's my list: walk, move, turn, sat, stood, saw, look, cross, run/ran, go/went/gone, leave/left, get/got, pull, push, put, raise, check. The obvious fix is to find a ... Read Full Story

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