Are there any good books you recomend I read, cause I figured that if I read more I will become more fimiliar with bigger words.
2007-10-21 11:34:34 · 3 answers · asked by hmmmm 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
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2007-10-21 11:39:43 · answer #1 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, any novel by Taylor Caldwell will be a good start. Her stories - like Grandmother and the Priests and Answer as a Man - are excellent and so is her vocabulary. Keep a dictionary handy when reading!
Reading some of the classics should help, too. Try anything by Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities is an excellent one and so is A Christmas Carol or Our Mutual Friend or David Copperfield or Great Expectations or Nicholas Nickleby or Hard Times or The Pickwick Papers).
I also recommend that you read Jane Austen's books: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park.
You may also want to delve into the works of William Shakespeare, some Sherlock Holmes stories and possibly some poetry.
I would also recommend that you read Woe Is I – The Grammar Phobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English by Patricia T. O'Conner. It's fun and funny, and it teaches you.
2007-10-21 18:45:26 · answer #2 · answered by ck1 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Really, reading anything at all increases your vocabulary. I read the most out of all of my friends and I have the biggest vocabulary. Doesn't much matter what you read.
2007-10-21 20:10:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋