English Collocations In Use Advanced South Asian Edition

Collocations are combinations of words which frequently appear together. Using them makes your English sound more natural. Presents and explains approximately 1,500 word combinations in typical contexts using tables, charts, short texts and dialogues.

Covers all the most useful collocations (common word combinations) at Advanced level to help make your English more fluent and natural-sounding. English Collocations in Use Advanced presents and practises hundreds of collocations in typical contexts to help you improve your written and spoken English. It also includes tips on learning strategies and ways to avoid common learner errors. The book is informed by the Cambridge International Corpus to make sure that the collocations taught are the most frequent and useful for students at each level.

Collocations are combinations of words which frequently appear together. Using them makes your English sound more natural.

The ideal dictionary for upper intermediate to advanced level students and for IELTS and TOEFL preparation.New! 'Mini-collocation boxes' show which words go togetherNew! Frequency information showing you the most important words to learnNew! Hundreds of new words and phrasesUsage notes based on the Cambridge Learner Corpus help you avoid common mistakesEasy definitions, and Guidewords help you find the meaning you want - fastThe CD-ROM gives you even more!New! Hundreds of interactive exercises including exam practice for IELTS and BECNew! Thousands of extra example sentencesUnique! SMART thesaurus turns the dictionary into a thesaurus - instantlySpoken British and American pronunciations for every word

This volumes examines selected formal and functional characteristics of English in South Asia, where English was introduced in the sixteenth century and now has over fifty million users. An integrative and interdisciplinary collection, the books brings together invited papers by acclaimed creative writers from India and Pakistan and by international linguists and English educators. The five major facets of South Asian English discussed are context and uses: structure and contact; functions and innovations; the curriculum; and the multilingual's creativity. The volume provides current perspectives on complex issues of concern to teachers and students of world Englishes.

This Book Brings Together For The First Time Papers On The Continued Use Of The `Transplanted` Language (English) Throughtout The Region Resulting In The Emergence Of `Institutionalized` Varieties Of English Identifiable By Distinctive Features Of Indiganous Lexical Boeeowings, Word Formation, Grammar And Discourse. Dustjacket Looks Used Otherwise In Clean And Good Condition.