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The acknowledgements describe meticulous typescript review, detailed line-by-line comments, and significant corrections that improve clarity, accuracy, and completeness. It also highlights the author’s reliance on major grammar research, including Quirk and colleagues’ Comprehensive Grammar, and access to corpus data from the British National Corpus to resolve usage questions and refine guidance for learners.","Michael SwanPracticalEnglishUsageINTERNATIONAL STUDENT'S EDITION  \nPRACTICAL ENGLISH USAGE  \nMichael Swan  \nPRACTICALENGLISHUSAGE  \nSecond Edition  \nInternational Student's Edition  \nOxford University Press,Great Clarendon Street,Oxford OX26DP  \nOxford New York  \nAuckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town ChennaiDar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi KolkataKuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai NairobiSao Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto  \nwith an associated company in Berlin  \nOXFORD and oXFORD ENGLISHare trade marks of Oxford University Press  \nISBN0194421465(paperback)  \n⑨Michael Swan 1980,1995,1996  \nFirst published 1980(reprinted twenty-six times)Second edition 1995Eighth impression 1998  \nInternational Student's Edition 1996Eighth impression 2002  \nNo unauthorized photocopying  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by anymeans,without the prior permission in writing of Oxford UniversityPress,or as expressly permitted by law,or under terms agreedwith the appropriate reprographics nghts organization.Enquiriesconcerning reproduction outside the scope of the above shouldbe sent to the ELT Rights Department,Oxford University Press,at the address above  \nYou must not circulate this book in any other binding or coverand you must impose this same condition on any acquirer  \nAny websites referred to in this publication are in the pubic domain andtheir addresses are provided by Oxford University Press for information only.Oxford University Press disclaims any responsibility for the content.  \nTypeset in Adobe Utopia and Franklin Gothic byTradespools Ltd,Frome,Somerset  \nPrinted in Hong Kong  \nDedication  \nTo John Eckersley,who first encouraged my interest in this kind of thing.  \n了  \n(  \nContents  \npageAcknowledgementsIntroductionList ofentriesLanguage terminologyPhonetic alphabetXXXPractical English Usage1Index631  \nixxi—  \nAcknowledgements  \nSo many people have helped me to write this revised edition that Iam nolonger totally sure of my claim to be its author.  \nKeith Mitchell and Gareth Watkins both gave the typescript meticulousattention;their line-by-line comments,and their help with difficultproblems of analysis and description,were invaluable,and have resulted in alarge number of important corrections and improvements.I am no lessgrateful to the other scholars who were kind enough to read and commenton the entire typescript,and who have made an enormous contribution tothe clarity,accuracy and completeness of the finished text:Mike McCarthy,Ian Thompson,Catherine Walter,John Algeo and Sharon Hilles.The latterthree deserve my additional thanks for dealing so patiently and tactfully withmy attempts to describe American English.Ray Woodall,Frank Keenan,Jeremy Clear and David Lott of the Oxford University Press were kindenough to give me access to data from the British National Corpus;thismaterial helped to solve a number of problems (if sometimes invalidatingmy solutions to others).  \nI am also deeply indebted to Norman Coe and Michio Kawakami,whosedetailed comments on the first edition have helped me very substantiallywith the preparation of the second;and to the many other colleagues andcorrespondents without whose suggestions and advice almost every page ofthis book would have less to offer.To the following,and those others whosenames have not survived the rigours of my filing system,my most gratefulthanks:Gerry Abbott,Spencer Allman,Rune Andersen,Tsutomu Aoi,PiotrBąkowski, David Banks, Reinald Baumhauer, Joshua Bear, Franz J Braun,GBrisou,J Brondel,Lilijana Burcar,Maria Cecilia Carattoli,Jung Chang,JFChapin,Javier Chico,KKRoy 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