English guides 4 confusable words
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English guides 4 confusable words
COLLINS COBUILDC0LUN5 Rimin^ian CaNwwtj' tnUnulieml UnfaM* DatahaaeENGLISHGUIDESCONFUSABLE WORDSEdwin CarpenterTHE UNIVERSITY nr DĨDUĨMPU41ÍCOLLINS rn English guides 4 confusable words nPTTiT nHarperCollins Publishers 77-85 Fulham Palace Road London W6 8JBCOBUILD is a trademark at William Collin* Sons A Co Ltdc HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 1993 First published 1993 Reprinted 199310 98765432All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, o English guides 4 confusable words r transmitted In any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission In writing at thEnglish guides 4 confusable words
e Publisher.ISBN 0 00 370662-5Computer typeset by Wyvern Typesetting LtdPrinted In Great Britain by HarperCollins Manufacturing. Glasgow note Entered COLLINS COBUILDC0LUN5 Rimin^ian CaNwwtj' tnUnulieml UnfaM* DatahaaeENGLISHGUIDESCONFUSABLE WORDSEdwin CarpenterTHE UNIVERSITY nr DĨDUĨMPU41ÍCOLLINS rn English guides 4 confusable words should be regarded as affecting the legal status of any trademark.The Author and Publishers would like to thank the following people for their help: Dora Carpenter and KUxabeth Cane, who read the manuscript and provided valuable comments; Deborah Kirby; Annette Capet Lorna Heasllp. and Katy Shaw; an English guides 4 confusable words d the Cobuild team. In particular Stephen Button. Ann Hewlngs, and Jenny Watson.ForewordThe Guide to Confusable Words is one of a series of Cobuild EnEnglish guides 4 confusable words
glish Guides to particular areas of difficulty for learners of English.This Guide deals with words which may be confused. This may be because they looCOLLINS COBUILDC0LUN5 Rimin^ian CaNwwtj' tnUnulieml UnfaM* DatahaaeENGLISHGUIDESCONFUSABLE WORDSEdwin CarpenterTHE UNIVERSITY nr DĨDUĨMPU41ÍCOLLINS rn English guides 4 confusable words s. Often there are misleading similarities between words in English and words in other languages.This book contains nearly 400 entries, covering over 900 items. Using real examples, the entries show the typical use of the words in modem English. The examples are taken from the Bank of English, a col English guides 4 confusable words lection of modem English speech and writing drawn from a variety of sources. The computer files of the Bank of English currently contain approximatelyEnglish guides 4 confusable words
200 million words.I hope that we have selected useful information and that you find the book easy to use. Please write to me with any comments or sugCOLLINS COBUILDC0LUN5 Rimin^ian CaNwwtj' tnUnulieml UnfaM* DatahaaeENGLISHGUIDESCONFUSABLE WORDSEdwin CarpenterTHE UNIVERSITY nr DĨDUĨMPU41ÍCOLLINS rn English guides 4 confusable words of BirminghamCorpus AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank those authors and publishers who kindly gave permission for copyright material to be used in the Bank of English. We would also like to thank Times Newspapers Ltd, the BBC World Service, and National Public Radio of Washington for providing English guides 4 confusable words valuable data.IntroductionThis book deals with words which regularly cause problems because they are easily confused. It is fairly common to hear mistEnglish guides 4 confusable words
akes such as Tm so boring’ (instead of Tm so bored’) or ‘An eventual solution would be...’ (instead of ‘A possible solution would be...’). The entriesCOLLINS COBUILDC0LUN5 Rimin^ian CaNwwtj' tnUnulieml UnfaM* DatahaaeENGLISHGUIDESCONFUSABLE WORDSEdwin CarpenterTHE UNIVERSITY nr DĨDUĨMPU41ÍCOLLINS rn English guides 4 confusable words y certain words are confusable. For example, they may look similar when they are written down but have very different meanings, for example quite and quiet, or suit and suite. Or they might look similar and have closely related, but not identical, meanings, for example altogether and all together, o English guides 4 confusable words r breath and breathe.Some words not only look similar, but also sound the same when they are spoken, for example practice and practise, or stationaryEnglish guides 4 confusable words
and stationery.Other words do not look the same, but can be easily confused because they have similar, although not identical meanings, for example baCOLLINS COBUILDC0LUN5 Rimin^ian CaNwwtj' tnUnulieml UnfaM* DatahaaeENGLISHGUIDESCONFUSABLE WORDSEdwin CarpenterTHE UNIVERSITY nr DĨDUĨMPU41ÍCOLLINS rn English guides 4 confusable words imilar form, for example after, afterwards, and later, or its and it's.Differences between British and American English can also cause confusion.The entries in this book deal with all these areas of confusion. The explanations are supported by real examples which show how the words are typically use English guides 4 confusable words d in modem English.COLLINS COBUILDC0LUN5 Rimin^ian CaNwwtj' tnUnulieml UnfaM* DatahaaeENGLISHGUIDESCONFUSABLE WORDSEdwin CarpenterTHE UNIVERSITY nr DĨDUĨMPU41ÍCOLLINS rnCOLLINS COBUILDC0LUN5 Rimin^ian CaNwwtj' tnUnulieml UnfaM* DatahaaeENGLISHGUIDESCONFUSABLE WORDSEdwin CarpenterTHE UNIVERSITY nr DĨDUĨMPU41ÍCOLLINS rnGọi ngay
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