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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... common verbs used in IE with a preposition , where Standard English has none . As already noted , there is usually another common verb which takes a preposition . In the following examples , first the verb which is followed by a ...
... common verbs used in IE with a preposition , where Standard English has none . As already noted , there is usually another common verb which takes a preposition . In the following examples , first the verb which is followed by a ...
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... common speech it would be nebulas . Radii , fungi , cacti , nuclei , syllabi are commonly found in technical discourses ; in common usage we have radiuses , sylla- buses , cactuses , nucleuses , funguses . And then there are numerous ...
... common speech it would be nebulas . Radii , fungi , cacti , nuclei , syllabi are commonly found in technical discourses ; in common usage we have radiuses , sylla- buses , cactuses , nucleuses , funguses . And then there are numerous ...
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... common all over the world . But a bottleneck ( by definition something narrow ) cannot be world - wide . Be that as ... common expressions which are all oxymorons : war games , civil war , random order , spendthrift , junk food , a ...
... common all over the world . But a bottleneck ( by definition something narrow ) cannot be world - wide . Be that as ... common expressions which are all oxymorons : war games , civil war , random order , spendthrift , junk food , a ...
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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