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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... politicians from the state who really disappointed Mr Satish . ' Clearly the correspondent who filed this report was under the impression that the plural were is needed since politicians is plural . But this is a mistake . To see how a ...
... politicians from the state who really disappointed Mr Satish . ' Clearly the correspondent who filed this report was under the impression that the plural were is needed since politicians is plural . But this is a mistake . To see how a ...
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... political life : a fast undertaken by a group of people as a form of protest where , in a relay race , each fasting person is relieved after some time by another who takes his place . Naturally the word is not found in British English ...
... political life : a fast undertaken by a group of people as a form of protest where , in a relay race , each fasting person is relieved after some time by another who takes his place . Naturally the word is not found in British English ...
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... political games . In 1812 , to gain advantage for his party , he redrew the boundaries of an electoral district . An artist who saw the redrawn map hanging in the office of the Boston Sentinel added a head , wings , and claws to it and ...
... political games . In 1812 , to gain advantage for his party , he redrew the boundaries of an electoral district . An artist who saw the redrawn map hanging in the office of the Boston Sentinel added a head , wings , and claws to it and ...
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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