Guide to Patterns and Usage in English (Second Edition)

This book, for foreign students, is a guide to the composition of idiomatic English. Idiom is as much a matter of correct word order as of wide vocabulary or knowledge of syntax: and in this book Mr Hornby describes and tabulates the chief English sentence and phrase patterns, and sets down the numerous idiomatic ways of expressing time - relations and other common concepts.

Contents
Introduction: the Spoken Language
Part 1: Verbs and Verb Patterns
Part 2: Time and Tense
Part 3: Nouns, Determiners and Adjectives
Part 4: Adverbials
Part 5: Various Concepts and Ways in which they are Expressed
Index

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