Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780194202411 |
| ISBN10: | 01942024111 |
| Binding: | Unidentified |
| No. of pages: | 768 pages |
| Size: | 234x156x37 mm |
| Weight: | 1002 g |
| Language: | English |
| 614 |
Category:
Paperback with online access
Michael Swan's guide to problems in English
Series:
Practical English Usage;
Edition number: 4. Aufl.
Publisher: Oxford University Press ELT
Date of Publication: 11 January 2022
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Short description:
Fully revised and updated, and now available online and in print.
Long description:
Practical English Usage is recommended for any teacher, trainee teacher, or advanced-level student looking for answers to questions about the English language. The material is now organised in two parts (grammar and vocabulary), making it easier than ever to find the answers, either online or in print.
Part 1 is a complete practical learner's grammar with 28 sections, covering all the structural points that cause problems for learners.
Part 2is a guide to vocabularyproblems covering:
The 600+ entries provide answers to the questions that learners typically ask, for example:
Plus:
Part 1 is a complete practical learner's grammar with 28 sections, covering all the structural points that cause problems for learners.
Part 2is a guide to vocabularyproblems covering:
- rules for word formation and spelling
- a survey of high-priority vocabulary areas
- an A-Z guide to over 250 common word problems
The 600+ entries provide answers to the questions that learners typically ask, for example:
- use of tenses
- the truth about conditionals
- articleproblems
- singular they
- get as a passive auxiliary
- bring ortake?
- can, could, may or might?
- classic or classical?
- the language of emails
- rules for word formation and spelling
Plus:
- the grammar of speech and formal writing
- British-American differences
- questions ofstyle and idiom
- changes in English
- politeness
- avoiding offensive language
- a survey of high-priority vocabulary areas
- a guide toover 250 common vocabulary problems
- lists of learners' most common mistakes
