Cambridge Proficiency English [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION Cambridge Proficiency English is a combined grammar, structure and writing book, and dictionary, for students preparing for the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English. It is also an adequate course for students wishing to go beyond Lower Certificate standard to a more advanced stage. The book will be especially useful to students preparing for the revised Use of English and English Language papers, which follow from the revised syllabus of 1966. The book is divided into six parts, dealing with words, sentences, punctuation, comprehension, form and style, and idiom. The first part includes use of tenses, active and passive forms, a list of about 650 sentences showing the use of phrasal verbs, a list of phrasal nouns, sentence examples of prepositions that follow certain verbs, a list of prepositions that follow certain adjectives, and a study of adverb position. Other parts of the book deal with types and use of clauses, reported speech, expansion of notes, summary writing (in the revised form demanded by the syllabus) and comprehension work. There is also a short survey of Enghsh style from the 15th Century to the present day, as well as some 180 examples of idiomatic usage including parts of the body, clothing, animals, colour, the sea and the weather. Exercises, many of them taken from exam papers, follow each section so that the book both for class work and for the student working alone provides a course that meets the demands of the revised Cambridge Proficiency Use of English and English Language papers. My thanks are due to Mr. D. Waldo Clarke, former Head of the Department of English Studies, West London College, for his very kind help and invaluable suggestions during the preparation of the book.