Current English: A Guide for the User of English in IndiaOxford University Press, 2001 - 183 Seiten Current English: A Guide for the User of English in India identifies English expressions used by Indians and provides the correct Standard English from when necessary, as well as numerous tips on style, and the origin of terms. |
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... Standard British English . In between them is a staggering range of ' Englishes ' further differentiated along ... Standard English . So I have chosen to concentrate only on those items which the IE user genuinely believes are part of ...
... Standard British English . In between them is a staggering range of ' Englishes ' further differentiated along ... Standard English . So I have chosen to concentrate only on those items which the IE user genuinely believes are part of ...
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... standard accepted in India by tradition and convention is British English . So expressions like at all costs , in details , keybunch ... must be marked IE and the Standard English equivalents given . This goes for other non - Indian ...
... standard accepted in India by tradition and convention is British English . So expressions like at all costs , in details , keybunch ... must be marked IE and the Standard English equivalents given . This goes for other non - Indian ...
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... standard English idioms ( with the mistaken IE forms in brackets ) : to pay lip service ( to pay a lip service , we do no more than pay a lip service to the ideas of Gandhi and Nehru ) ; last but not least ( last but not the least ...
... standard English idioms ( with the mistaken IE forms in brackets ) : to pay lip service ( to pay a lip service , we do no more than pay a lip service to the ideas of Gandhi and Nehru ) ; last but not least ( last but not the least ...
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adjective adjective form adverb agreement alternative American asked associated auxiliary British English called cliché collocations common considered construction contexts correct form curate's egg D.H. Lawrence Deccan Herald Dictionary discussed distinction earlier English Usage example expression fact flabbergasted Fowler give given grammar head noun Hobson-Jobson idioms if-clause Indian English Indian Parliament indicate Kannada language look luggage main clause meaning meet metaphors modifier negation negative noun phrase object one's Oxford oxymoron past perfect person pleonasm plural form positive possible predicate preposition pronoun question quote Raja Rao Rajya Sabha reason reference relative clause Sabha seen sense sentence singular situation someone speak speaker split infinitive Standard English structure suggestion superlative Supposing talk tautology tell tense term thing user of English usually verb Viv Richards word writer