Trade [antikvár]

P R E F A C E This book sets out to show what English-speaking people say when dealing with money, trading or shopping. It contains over thirty originál articles, dialogues and descriptions. None oí them is adapted, but the matter irrelevant to the present subject has been leit out where possible, the abridgements being regularly marked by dots in square brackets. In the book the reader will íind extracts from English, American, Australian and South African authors. It is obvious that a textbook including several dozen specimens of prose from four countries cannot be uniform in style. But no such uniformity is needed: the student is invited to compare different ways of saying one and the same thing and choose the one which suits him best. Money and shopping have been discussed more than once in other manuals of conversational English, which circumstance accounts for somé gaps in the material: it was thought unnecessary to reprint the texts from the books published in the USSR and available to all. * Besides there are numerous gaps in the book which owe their existence to bad luck: they just could not be fiiled up. There is no text on a perfumer's shop, for example; marketing is represented by comparatively few excerpts, and so on. The book is not necessarily supposed to be studied in the order it is written, and no attempt has been made to give simple texts