Hornby A. S., Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary of Current English — 1977
Аннотация: This new edition has won international praise from students and teachers. It is the indispensable practical reference book to the English language. A dictionary that will be useful to the learner must be more than an occasional reference for spelling difficulties, pronunciations and the meanings of difficult or new vocabulary; a knowledge of how to select vocabulary for particular contexts and how to put the words together in the correct order is most important. This dictionary is the only one which provides detailes information of this kind. It makes an active contribution to written and oral work in the same way that a textbook does and provides the student with an excellent opportunity for private study. The dictionary provides a unique wealth of information and guidance on sentence patterns and usage, including notes on common errors and on comparative structures. The inclusion of numerous phrases and sentences to illustrate structures and contexts is a very important feature of the text.Idiomatic expressions and collocations, with which English abounds and which the foreign user finds most difficult to handle,have also been given careful attention. Stylistic values and specialist English registers are recorded, as are American spellings, meanings and pronunciation
