Practical English Usage is a world bestseller and a vital reference tool that helps teachers and higher-level learners with common language problems in English. Practical English Usage Fourth Edition is now available as an app, making it quicker and easier to look up the 600+ entries. Sep 10, 2019 Over 600 short entries on common problems in English Free sample entries available: see below. Entries cover: spoken and written grammar, vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation, formal and informal language, British-American differences Clear simple explanations; examples in natural everyday English New revised and updated edition, reorganised into two parts for easier quicker reference: 1.
Practical English Usage is a standard reference book aimed at foreign learners of English and their teachers written by Michael Swan.
Published by Oxford University Press, it has sold over 2 million copies since the first edition was published in 1980.[1] A new, and greatly extended second edition was published in 1995. A third edition was released in 2005, and a fourth in 2016.
Feature[edit]
It features basic descriptions of English grammar and usage as well as highlighting various words which are often problematic for non-native speakers. Although the model is basically British English, it explains some of the stylistic differences between British and American usage.
The third edition also takes into account some of the most recent changes within British English, particularly the commonisation of various American English forms (such as the use of like as a conjunction - e.g. like I do).
Influences[edit]
In his Acknowledgements for the first edition, Swan refers to the aid given him by 'various standard reference books - in particular, the splendid A Grammar of Contemporary English, by Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik' (Longman 1972), and in the second edition, to 'the monumental A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language' (Longman 1985), by the same authors.
See also[edit]
Similar works[edit]
The Complete Plain Words by Ernest Gowers
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H. W. Fowler
References[edit]
^'Practical English Usage'. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
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