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Fully revised and updated, and now available online and in print.

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:

• 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

  The entries in Practical English Usage are not only informed by Swan's authoritative knowledge of English grammar, but by a sure sense of which aspects of the grammar are likely to be problematic, and how these can be most effectively explained.

  Vorwort
  Your indispensable guide to problems in English

  Klappentext

  Practical English Usage has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. Now revised and updated for the fourth edition, it answers the questions that teachers and learners ask about English grammar and vocabulary with clear, corpus-informed explanations and examples.

  Zusammenfassung
  Fully revised and updated, and now available online and in print.