30 Days to Better English
Publisher: Signet
Published: April 2, 1985
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780451157027
Subjects: General; Reference / General; Reference
First sentence: Do you make embarrassing errors in pronunciation, spelling, grammar, word usage?
Notes: Signet
Table of contents: label: Part I
title: Test Your English!; label: 1st Day
title: Test Your Pronunciation
pagenum: 13
description: Four short but revealing pronunciation tests give you an accurate indication of how you sound to other people.; label: 2nd Day
title: Test Your Vocabulary
pagenum: 18
description: React to 30 specially selected words to discover whether your vocabulary is average, good, or superior.; label: 3rd Day
title: Test Your Spelling
pagenum: 22
description: In a few moments you can find out whether your spelling is as good as it should be—or whether you make errors you're not even aware of!; label: 4th Day
title: Test Your Grammar
pagenum: 25
description: Do you generally use words correctly? Are you usually sure—or only half sure? Let's put it to a test.; label: 5th Day
title: Just for Fun (I)
pagenum: 29; label: Part II
title: Say It Right!; label: 6th Day
title: Can You Pass This Easy Pronunciation Test?
pagenum: 35
description: Your reaction to nine significant English words will tell you a great deal about your pronunciation habits.; label: 7th Day
title: More Practice in Good Pronunciation
pagenum: 39
description: Here are 25 important words that poor speakers say in a slovenly fashion. How about you?; label: 8th Day
title: Still More Words That Fool the Unwary
pagenum: 45
description: You complete your understanding of the principles of correct pronunciation by examining four final categories of English words; then you check the success of your learning in Part II by taking a pronunciation test that most unsophisticated speakers would do very poorly on.; label: 9th Day
title: Just for Fun (II)
pagenum: 50; label: Part III
title: Improve Your Vocabulary!; label: 10th Day
title: A Simple Program for Vocabulary Improvement
pagenum: 57
description: To increase your vocabulary at a prodigious rate, you must learn to be on the alert for new words.; label: 11th Day
title: The Royal Road to Learning New Words
pagenum: 74
description: If you work from Latin and Greek roots you can add new words to your vocabulary in wholesale quantities!; label: 12th Day
title: Let's Learn 10 New Words
pagenum: 89
description: A quick warm-up that will help you add some short and expressive terms to your vocabulary.; label: 13th Day
title: A Challenge to Your Vocabulary
pagenum: 92
description: Here are 50 more words that should be in every educated person's vocabulary—how successfully can you learn them?; label: 14th Day
title: Just for Fun (III)
pagenum: 98; label: Part IV
title: Spell It Right!; label: 15th Day
title: Special Tricks That Will Make You a Better Speller
pagenum: 105
description: Learning to be a good speller may seem difficult—but there are tested short cuts to quick and permanent mastery of the words most people misspell.; label: 16th Day
title: More Memory Tricks to Make You a Perfect Speller
pagenum: 113
description: By now you should be convinced that mnemonics make mastery of correct spelling practically effortless. Today you conquer, once and for all time, 23 new words that are frequently misspelled.; label: 17th Day
title: And Still More Tricks
pagenum: 117
description: Another 15 words you can conquer through mnemonics.; label: 18th Day
title: Some More Spelling Tests to Keep You Alert
pagenum: 123
description: By now you should really feel your spelling ability improving—but don't relax. The next five tests will check on your learning and introduce some new demons for you to conquer.; label: 19th Day
title: A Final, Acid Test of Your Newly Acquired Spelling Skill
pagenum: 127
description: Some of the hundred words tested in this chapter you've already conquered—others are new. When you've mastered the new ones, you'll be sure of one thing—it will be a cold day in August before anyone can ever stump you again!; label: 20th Day
title: Just for Fun (IV)
pagenum: 132; label: Part V
title: Speak Correctly!; label: 21st Day
title: An English Test for You
pagenum: 139
description: Let's find out if your everyday English is as good as you are.; label: 22nd Day
title: The Most Confusing Verbs in the English Language, and How to Get Them Straight
pagenum: 147
description: No other verbs cause as much trouble as lay and lie. Now you can begin mastering them by learning a few simple and easy-to-apply principles.; label: 23rd Day
title: Final Steps for Mastering Lay and Lie
pagenum: 150
description: Today you nail down your understanding of these troublesome verbs and prove to yourself that you can now avoid all confusion.; label: 24th Day
title: How to Find Your Way through Singulars and Plurals
pagenum: 154
description: Do you have to stop sometimes and wonder whether to use is or are, has or have, was or were? Let's discover how easy it is to decide once you're sure of the rules.; label: 25th Day
title: Just for Fun (V)
pagenum: 161; label: Part VI
title: The Modern View of Correctness in English; label: 26th Day
title: How Correct Must Correct English Be?
pagenum: 169
description: An informal investigation for Harper's Magazine that turned up some surprising results.; label: 27th Day
title: How Would You Solve These Five Grammar Problems?
pagenum: 184
description: Like or as? Me or I? None are or none is? Between or among three dresses? How do you usually say it, and are you right or wrong?; label: 28th Day
title: Seven New Problems to Pit Your Wits Against
pagenum: 189
description: Is a singular or plural verb used after who? What is the difference between childlike and childish? When do you feel bad, when badly? Which is correct, we boys or us boys? More excursions into the kind of pesky little problems that make English so difficult.; label: 29th Day
title: Nine Final Problems and How to Tackle Them
pagenum: 193
description: When are we disinterested, when uninterested? Is phenomenon singular or plural? How about measles, mathematics? Is it all right to use due to as a conjunction? Is try and come good English? Is older than me correct English? And is thick hair luxurious or luxuriant? Some more notes on present-day educated standards in American English.; label: 30th Day
title: Just for Fun (VI)
pagenum: 199