PREFATORY NOTEDuring the course of some ten years devoted to theteaching of English to foreign students, I have noticedthat, while there are a large number of fairly goodelementary textbooks for foreigners, there is a real needfor an advanced course which will help pupils to under-stand and use the more complicated grammatical con-structions, the idiomatic expressions, and the compoundverbs. By " compound 55 verbs, I mean those whosemeaning is modified or completely changed by theaddition of one or more prepositions or prepositionaladverbs. I...
PREFATORY NOTEDuring the course of some ten years devoted to theteaching of English to foreign students, I have noticedthat, while there are a large number of fairly goodelementary textbooks for foreigners, there is a real needfor an advanced course which will help pupils to under-stand and use the more complicated grammatical con-structions, the idiomatic expressions, and the compoundverbs. By " compound 55 verbs, I mean those whosemeaning is modified or completely changed by theaddition of one or more prepositions or prepositionaladverbs. I have found that while, on the one hand,the average foreign pupil is often able to express himselffairly correctly in a kind of over-simplified " foreigners5English,55 he is, on the other hand, generally quiteincapable of reading an English novel or play, or ofunderstanding an ordinary conversation properly. Hewill puzzle over a sentence like " John dropped in thisevening,55 quite unaware that " to drop in 55 is a groupwith a meaning quite apart from that of the words takenseparately ; and he is completely floored by idiomaticexpressions like " to burn the candle at both ends,55 or,
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Cím: An Advanced English Course for Foreign Students [antikvár]
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