This Guide to English Grammar is a systematic account of grammatical forms and the way they are used in standard British English today. The emphasis is on meanings and how they govern the choice of grammatical pattern.
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Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore (for Babylon)
Dragons to Mother Goose, May Day to Michaelmas, this reference work is an absorbing and entertaining guide to English folklore. It is also an authoritative reference source on such legendary characters as Cinderella, Jack the Giant Killer, and Robin Hood. It gives entertaining and informative explanations of a wide range of subjects in folklore: oral and performance genres such as cheese rolling, morris dancing, and rushbearing; superstitions such as crossing fingers and wishbones; beliefs like fairy rings and frog showers; and calendar customs from April Fool's Day to St. Valentine's Day.
Based on the text of Margaret Drabble's 1995 edition, this sixth edition has been completely reworked and expanded. There are nearly 600 entirely new entries to reflect the new figures and issues of English Literature in the new millennium, and the existing entries have been extensively revised and updated to incorporate the latest scholarship. But this new edition remains faithful to Sir Paul Harvey's original vision of an authoritative work placing English literature from the Classical world, Europe, Latin America, and beyond. In addition to the extensive coverage of writers, works, literary theory, allusions, and characters, there are sixteen featured essay-style entries on key topics.
Upper-Intermediate to Advanced
A collocations dictionary that helps students write and speak natural-sounding English.
Collocations- common word combinations such as 'bright idea' or 'talk freely' - are the essential building blocks of natural-sounding English. The dictionary contains over 150,000 collocations for nearly 9,000 headwords.
