This comprehensive guide to written and spoken English offers details of usage in all countries where English used. The writer's, speaker's and reader's handy companion; the student's source. A book for browsing, for rules and for reference.
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Loreto Todd is a specialist in Modern English and is the author The Language of Irish Literature, Words Apart: A Dictionary of Northern Ireland English, and Modern Englishes, Pidgins and Creoles.
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prime verbs, intrusive vowels, fewer vowel, prestigious accent, articulatory setting, dummy auxiliary, fad words, spoken medium, uncountable nouns, sentence modifier, speaker orientation, phatic communion, declarative question, preposition phrases Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
International English, Standard English, Old English, Scottish English, Black English, Received Pronunciation, West Africa, African English, Sierra Leone, Australian English, John Smith, West Indian English, Caribbean English, Irish English, Positive Comparative Superlative, Hong Kong, Pidgin English, Papua New Guinea, Canadian English, New Zealand English, Northern Ireland, Nigerian English, Indian Sub-Continent, Chinese English, Basic English Browse Sample Pages:
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prime verbs, intrusive vowels, fewer vowel, prestigious accent, articulatory setting, dummy auxiliary, fad words, spoken medium, uncountable nouns, sentence modifier, speaker orientation, phatic communion, declarative question, preposition phrases Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
International English, Standard English, Old English, Scottish English, Black English, Received Pronunciation, West Africa, African English, Sierra Leone, Australian English, John Smith, West Indian English, Caribbean English, Irish English, Positive Comparative Superlative, Hong Kong, Pidgin English, Papua New Guinea, Canadian English, New Zealand English, Northern Ireland, Nigerian English, Indian Sub-Continent, Chinese English, Basic English Browse Sample Pages:
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- The Oxford Companion to the English Language by Tom McArthur on page 523, and page 1075
- A Dictionary of Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner in Back Matter
- A Survey of Modern English by Stephan Gramley in Front Matter
- International Technical Communication: How to Export Information about High Technology (Wiley Technical Communications Library) by Nancy L. Hoft on page 135
- A History of English Words (The Language Library) by Geoffrey Hughes in Back Matter
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