Modern English Usage Dictionary

Author: Yang Fahu
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Publish Date: 1999-08-01
Features: This dictionary is designed to meet the practical needs of English learners in China, selecting approximately 6,000 entries from the English teaching syllabi of Chinese primary and secondary schools and relevant foreign dictionaries. It emphasizes the usage of certain grammatically strong nouns, adjectives, and verbs in terms of phonetics, part of speech, definitions, collocations, derivatives, synonyms, antonyms, and differentiation, supported by examples from English-language original texts. For instance, it highlights the singular and plural forms of nouns, the use of adjectives as predicatives, attributives, and comparatives, or provides clear symbols accompanied by example sentences for illustration. The naming rationale for the "Modern English Usage Dictionary" also stems from this.