British and American English [antikvár]

THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK The book is intended: (1)as a reader for fifth-year and sixth-year students of English, (2)for students who have passed the examination for the Cambridge Lower Certificate but who need somé further reading before tackling the English Literature syllabus for the Cambridge Proficiency Certificate, and (3)as a 'Refresher Course' for students who have completed their studies but do not want to lose the high standard they have achieved. Half the material of the book is by British writers and half by American, and, at the end of each chapter, comments are made on all important differences between British-English and American-English. In this sense, and to this extent, the book is a comparison. It is not intended, however, to be a comprehensive study of Comparative Linguistics. More than half the questions in all the exercises that follow each chapter have been especially designed to offer to students the opportunity of practice in speaking English which is vitai in the study of the language but which is frequently lacking in many classrooms. The comments (and footnotes) on words and other matters are made, of course, only once; thus, the American word sidewalk, for example, is discussed in the Comments on Chapter 1 but not again in the Comments on Chapters 2 and 21, although the word appears again in both those chapters. You are strongly recommended, therefore, to begin the book at the beginning. John Millington Ward