Practical English Usage Michael Swan Practical English Usage is a dictionary of problem points in the English language as encountered by learners and their teachers. Common problems are solved with practical, clear information in over 600 entries. • The dictionary has been thoroughly revised following extensive research with current users of the book • New features make it easier for users to find their way around the book • All the most popular entries are retained, but almost all entries have been modified to make them clearer and more effective in solving readers’ problems • Explanations and examples are now based on current corpus research • New entries on ‘Kinds of English’ cover standard English and dialects, correctness, spoken and written English, formality, and variation and change • This book is an excellent guide to the problem areas of English -
