Contemporary English Verb Phrase Usage Dictionary

Author: Zhou Fangzhu
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: This dictionary is a comprehensive reference tool that collects various contemporary English verb phrases, explains their meanings, and illustrates their usage. Its features include: extensive coverage, numerous example sentences, precise definitions, detailed notes, and broad applicability. The dictionary includes over 13,000 English verb phrases. Each phrase is accompanied by example sentences, ranging from one to three per phrase, totaling approximately 33,000 example sentences to clarify different meanings and illustrate various usages. The dictionary not only provides detailed explanations of the literal meanings of each phrase but also explains its extended meanings, derived meanings, and "fixed collocations" item by item. The definitions are precise, standardized, and fluent, allowing readers to generalize from specific examples. This dictionary meets the needs of English learners with intermediate or higher education levels and English teaching and research personnel for English verb phrase usage. The majority of the verb phrases included in the dictionary are "verb + preposition" and "verb + adverb" phrases, accounting for about 90% of the total, while the remaining 10% consist of phrases such as "verb + noun," "verb + verb," "verb phrase + pronoun," "verb + adjective," and "verb + adjective + preposition." For phrases with special usage, the dictionary provides additional notes such as "fixed collocations" or "tense reminders" with examples after the entry to indicate their special usage. Additionally, many example sentences in this book reflect contemporary life vocabulary.