The only book you need to really UNDERSTAND how English works, and more importantly why. Unique in the world and tested on students and businesspeople from all over the world, "English with Ease" does what no other book on English does: makes it easy and understandable!
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"A recipe that no student should be without." -- Journal of the English Council of California Colleges
"Just the first three pages gave me insights into English that I never got in all my years of school!" -- P. Nowicki, Montral, Canada
"This is a book that all students of English should have!" -- Prof. M.Savic, Moorpark College, Moorpark, CA
Mastering the English language is a lot like learning to cook: begin with the basic ingredients (parts of speech), mix them together according to common sense (a few basic guidelines, tempered by everyone's experience in the kitchen!), season to taste (punctuate), and serve with the appropriate garnishes and conventions (spelling). Like a Master Chef with a flair for teaching, Dierdre Honnold offers an innovative recipe for English, not through memorization and rote learning, but through an understanding of the choices that have resulted in our modern language. The result is an understanding that puts the re reader in charge of the linquistic kitchen! With its user-friendly, linguistics, phonetics, and mathematics approach, English With Ease (now in its second edition) is a highly recommended addition to every school, community, and personal library collection. -- Midwest Book Review
"Just the first three pages gave me insights into English that I never got in all my years of school!" -- P. Nowicki, Montral, Canada
"This is a book that all students of English should have!" -- Prof. M.Savic, Moorpark College, Moorpark, CA
Mastering the English language is a lot like learning to cook: begin with the basic ingredients (parts of speech), mix them together according to common sense (a few basic guidelines, tempered by everyone's experience in the kitchen!), season to taste (punctuate), and serve with the appropriate garnishes and conventions (spelling). Like a Master Chef with a flair for teaching, Dierdre Honnold offers an innovative recipe for English, not through memorization and rote learning, but through an understanding of the choices that have resulted in our modern language. The result is an understanding that puts the re reader in charge of the linquistic kitchen! With its user-friendly, linguistics, phonetics, and mathematics approach, English With Ease (now in its second edition) is a highly recommended addition to every school, community, and personal library collection. -- Midwest Book Review
About the Author
D. W. Honnold has written four award-winning books. A linguist fluent in seven languages and Instructor of five, Prof. Honnold knows what people need to know in order to understand how a language works and what they don't need. She wrote this book because none was available anywhere that satisfied her students' needs.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The only book on English that anyone needs!,
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This review is from: English With Ease: Mastering the Basic Ingredients of English (Paperback)
This little book has everything that anyone needs to really understand how English works. Even spelling! It's worth the purchase price for the spelling section alone!The publishers in all those other countries that are publishing it obviously know something....
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's a miracle: She explains how English works!,
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This review is from: English With Ease: Mastering the Basic Ingredients of English (Paperback)
When I was in school, English grammar was taught like the Ten Commandments: "Here are rules. Follow them always; question them never."
When I was in Organic Chemistry lecture in college, the professor took the old saying, "Oil and water don't mix," and he explained _why_ the oil and water don't mix. But his explanation was complex enough that we students needed an entire year of freshman chemistry as prerequisite, in order to understand his words. What's my point? It took me many more hours to learn the here's-why rules of chemistry than that don't-ask-why rules of English grammar, but now I understand how chemistry works. Whereas up till now, I considered English grammar to be merely a collection of arbitrary, meaningless decrees. But Dierdre Honnold's book changed that. The English language has a system (surprise, surprise), and she explains that system. Very seldom does she fall back on "I can't explain this rule, but it's a rule, ya gotta obey it." Everything that she writes about, has been covered in other grammar books; but I guarantee you that no other book explains anything more clearly than she explains it. And so often I said to myself, while reading Dierdre Honnold's book, "_Now_ I get it!" The chart on page 50 (what I call the "Shopper's Guide to Verb Tenses") explains exactly what each verb tense means; and if you want to be precise in writing a sentence, it lays out exactly which tense to use. This single page is worth the price of the book. I call the book a "miracle" -- well, here's the miracle: With just two simple rules, she explains how to correctly spell 99-plus percent of English words. One warning must be given. Though it doesn't pull down my five-star rating, potential buyers need to know that this book is self-published, and it was five weeks after I ordered the (new) book before the book was shipped. So if you have a term paper due in two weeks, buy yourself a used, not new, copy.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Finallya book that makes English EASY and understandable!,
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This review is from: English With Ease: Mastering the Basic Ingredients of English (Paperback)
Are you sick of not being SURE of how to say what you want to say, either in writing or orally? Do you resent the fact that you spent (at least) 12 years in school, and they never taught you to master your own language? I was in that same boat ‹ until I saw "English with Ease." Actually, I took a class from the author first, and in the class, she used a lot of the materials from the book. It was amazing ‹ a real eye-opener! English really is easy ... if it's presented right. And that's what the author does. All that nonsense they tried to make you memorize in school is unnecessary. Not all of it, of course, and that's where Dierdre (the author) really shines. She knows exactly what you NEED to know, and even more important, what you DON'T need to know, to understand English. I learned more in that one two-week class with her than I learned in all my years in school. Her students all said the same thing: "Why didn't they teach us this in school?!" I don't know why they don't, but everyone should read this book so they can finally understand the English language! ‹Jo Chandle
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