Student English Usage Dictionary

Author: Xia Hongjin
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Publish Date: 2001-03-01
Features: Do you sometimes speak "Chinese-style English"? Do you struggle with choosing synonyms or determining verb tenses and voices? Do you sometimes find it unclear how to collocate certain verbs, nouns, prepositions, and adverbs? Do you wonder whether a noun should be used with an article, or which article (a/an/the) to use? Do you want to understand the differences in expression between British and American English? Many of your questions about English usage can be answered in this dictionary. This is a usage dictionary for common English words. The purpose of compiling this dictionary is to help readers overcome difficulties in using common English words, enabling them to use English words correctly. Choose appropriate words, use the correct tenses and voices, sentence structures, and collocations to express ideas and engage in linguistic communication. This book is suitable for college and senior high school students, English teachers in middle and high schools, English professionals, and other English learners. Each entry in this dictionary includes part of speech, definition, common collocations, example sentences, and more. Many entries also provide usage notes or synonym discrimination. In the example sentences, the entry word and the phrases it forms, as well as the prepositions and adverbs used with it, are printed in italics to draw the reader's attention.