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Guide to Patterns and Usage in English

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This Guide, tailored for students of English as a foreign or second language, elucidates the composition of modern idiomatic English. Through tables and example sentences, Hornby identifies essential patterns for verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs, crucial for understanding English sentence structures. It also covers language use for expressing time relations and concepts like requests, conditions, possibility, and obligation. In this revised edition, Hornby highlights the significance of current spoken English, indicating the necessary stress and pitch features that accompany the demonstrated patterns. The Guide's close grammatical relationship with the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary is notable, particularly as it fully discusses the 25 Verb Patterns summarized in the Dictionary, making it an ideal companion for students and teachers. Anyone looking to maximize their use of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English will find this revised edition indispensable. The Guide explains and demonstrates the Dictionary's grammatical and stylistic elements through clear teaching patterns and numerous example sentences. Together, Hornby's Guide and the Dictionary serve as essential resources for mastering the speaking, reading, and writing of modern English.

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Guide to Patterns and Usage in English, A.S. Hornby

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3810903868
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This Guide, tailored for students of English as a foreign or second language, elucidates the composition of modern idiomatic English. Through tables and example sentences, Hornby identifies essential patterns for verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs, crucial for understanding English sentence structures. It also covers language use for expressing time relations and concepts like requests, conditions, possibility, and obligation. In this revised edition, Hornby highlights the significance of current spoken English, indicating the necessary stress and pitch features that accompany the demonstrated patterns. The Guide's close grammatical relationship with the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary is notable, particularly as it fully discusses the 25 Verb Patterns summarized in the Dictionary, making it an ideal companion for students and teachers. Anyone looking to maximize their use of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English will find this revised edition indispensable. The Guide explains and demonstrates the Dictionary's grammatical and stylistic elements through clear teaching patterns and numerous example sentences. Together, Hornby's Guide and the Dictionary serve as essential resources for mastering the speaking, reading, and writing of modern English.