Words: A User's Guide

ISBN-13: 9781138835641 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 456 str.

Graham Pointon; Stewart Clark

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'Words' is an accessible and invaluable reference that is ideal for students, business people and advanced learners of English. The book is structured in groups of words that may be confused because they sound alike, look alike or seem to have similar meanings, and this approach makes it much more intuitive and easy to use than a dictionary. Contrasting over 5000 words (such as habitable and inhabitable, precipitation and rainfall, reigns and reins), the book provides examples of usage adapted from national databases of contemporary English, and illustrates each headword in typical contexts and phrases.

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Contents

 

 

Guide to pronunciation

 

Introduction

 

Words: A User’s Guide

 

Grammar section

 

Word formation

 

Punctuation guide

 

Writing skills

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Stewart Clark is a lecturer and adviser on English language usage at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He also lectures on English usage elsewhere in Scandinavia.

Graham Pointon was the BBC's Pronunciation Adviser as head of the Pronunciation Research Unit for 23 years, and before that lectured on English Phonetics at the then University of Trondheim.