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

Neue Zweiteilung des Buches für schnelleres und leichteres Nachschlagen

Teil 1: Umfassende Lerngrammatik

28 Abschnitte zu allen relevanten Fragen der Grammatik und des Sprachgebrauchs und Informationen zu folgenden Themen:

• Grammatik mündlicher und formeller Sprache
• Unterschiede zwischen britischem und amerikanischem Englisch
• aktuelle Entwicklungen der englischen Sprache
• Stilfragen und idiomatischer Sprachgebrauch
• typische Fehler von Lerner/-innen

Teil 2: Hilfen zum Wortschatz

• Wortbildungs- und Schreibregeln
• wichtige situative Wendungen und Sprachgebrauchsregeln
• über 250 häufige Lexikfehler - alphabetisch geordnet

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 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 2 is a guide to vocabulary problems 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

• article problems

• singular they

• get as a passive auxiliary

• bring or take?

• 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 of style and idiom

• changes in English

• politeness

• avoiding offensive language

• a survey of high-priority vocabulary areas

• a guide to over 250 common vocabulary problems

• lists of learners' most common mistakes