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"We all live in the same country, so why do we sound do different? It's a matter of where you are on the map. Why didn't the southern accent exist until after the Civil War? How did California athletes end up coining so many new words? Why do we have so many different words for the same things -- like pop versus soda? Will one particularly strong accent cause New York to break up and create a 51st state? "--Website

Includes prepositions, questions and time.

Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, author McWhorter distills hundreds of years of lore into one lively history. Covering the little-known Celtic and Welsh influences on English, the impact of the Viking raids and the Norman Conquest, and the Germanic invasions that started it all during...

Delves into the way the English language developed throughout history and the manner in which it is used in the modern day through observations about its commonalities and peculiarities, enhanced with charts, examples, spelling, and idioms.

Volume 1, Beginnings to 1066: This volume deals with the history of English up to the Norman Conquest and contains chapters on Indo-European and Germanic, phonology and morphology, syntax, semantics and vocabulary, dialectology, onomastics, and literary language. Each chapter, as well as giving a chronologically-oriented presentation of the data, surveys scholarship in the area and takes full account of the impact of developing and current linguistic...

Struggling with pronouns? Take this interactive, practice-packed lesson on using possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives correctly in sentences.--Publisher.

Struggling with pronouns? Take this interactive, practice-packed lesson on using indefinite pronouns correctly in sentences.--Publisher.

Lesson-based learning supplements for teaching English as a second language.