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	The Sweet Sound of English: Writing Skills for Schools and Colleges (Pap...	N/A	12/22/2014 Add
	VChambers said: A landmark book on writing English has just been published by CreateSpace, an Amazon company. The book is The Sweet Sound of English, an innovative text for schools and colleges. Sweet Sound follows the principle of building writing skills sentence by sentence, since the sentence is the basic unit of the English language. Instead of hypothetical examples the author uses examples from a hundred authors, some of them Nobel laureates. We learn from ancient authors, and we have evocative examples from those who have written both wisely and well. The book is really a celebration of the English language, its range, its cadence and its ability to maintain its elegance in the varied world of experience. The Caribbean is well represented: V.S. Naipaul describing how he became a writer tags: English grammar, Writing Course, College text, Writing & Composition, , I wrote