English for To-day

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ENGLISH FOR TODAY JANET I. SCOBIE and W. O. WILLIAMS Many foreign students of English pass from the elementary to the more ad vanced stages and then find their ability to express themselves in good accurate English is not what they thought. In the earlier stages they have, no doubt, concentrated on difficulties one at a time, and when required to overcöme a number of difficulties at the same time, for their employers or for examination purposes, they make bad mistakes. It is to remedy such mistakes in expression that this book has been written. Its aim is to help students to express themselves clearly and accurately in the English they may have to use in the course of their work, and to pass examinations in English, especially those conducted for foreign students by the University of Cambridge. The types of mistakes most commonly committed by foreign students are pointed out, and exercises on how to correct errors in usage, in vocabulary, in g ammar, in punctuation and spelling are... Tovább

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ENGLISH FOR TODAY JANET I. SCOBIE and W. O. WILLIAMS Many foreign students of English pass from the elementary to the more ad vanced stages and then find their ability to express themselves in good accurate English is not what they thought. In the earlier stages they have, no doubt, concentrated on difficulties one at a time, and when required to overcöme a number of difficulties at the same time, for their employers or for examination purposes, they make bad mistakes. It is to remedy such mistakes in expression that this book has been written. Its aim is to help students to express themselves clearly and accurately in the English they may have to use in the course of their work, and to pass examinations in English, especially those conducted for foreign students by the University of Cambridge. The types of mistakes most commonly committed by foreign students are pointed out, and exercises on how to correct errors in usage, in vocabulary, in g ammar, in punctuation and spelling are giVen to help '> fradicate such errors. The book alsó contains valuable hints on the writing of letters and compositions. It explains how to answer comprehension questions, how to tackle précis writing and how to set out an appreciation of a passage of prose or verse. The good student is, of course, never satislied with the work he has done; other students need to be guided. For all it is hoped that this book will show what is needed by examiner or by employer for proficiency in English. Vissza