A Guide to Patterns and Usage in English

✍ Scribed by Hornby Alfred Sydney.

• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

London: Oxford, 1956. - 261 c. Одностраничный расклад

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. The tables of Verb Patterns in Part I are an expanded version of those in the Introduction to The Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English of which Mr Hornby is chief editor. They follow the same system of numbering.
A. S. Hornby 'believed that the knowledge of the expert should be put to the service of the ordinary learner and teacher'
In 1954, Hornby published A Guide to Patterns and Usage in English, a practical grammar whose approach to analysis, and tabular style of presentation, reflected the methods employed in the Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. The patterns were also a central feature of his later three-volume Oxford Progressive English Course and of his practical course book for teachers, The Teaching of Structural Words and Sentence Patterns.

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Лексикология и стилистика / Lexicology and Stylistics;Английское словоупотребление / English Usage