Right Word Wrong Word

Right Word Wrong Word Words and structures confused and misused by learners of English L. G. Alexander LONGMAN Addison Wesley Longman Limited Edinburgh Gate, Harlow Essex CM20 2JE, England and Associated Companies throughout the world. © Longman Group UK Limited 1994 All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Publishers. First published 1994 Fifth impression 1997 Illustrated by Chris Ryley British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Alexander, L. G. Right Word Wrong Word: Words and Structures Confused and Misused by Learners of English. - (Longman English Grammar Series) I. Title II. Ryley, Chris III. Series 428.24 ISBN 0-582-21860-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Alexander, L.G. Right word wrong word: words and structures confused and misused by learners of English/L.G. Alexander. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-582-21860-8 1. English language-Usage. 2. English language-Errors ofusage. I. Title. PE1460.A48 1993 428.2`4-dc20 93-11963 CIP We have been unable to trace the copyright holder of the text for Exercise 52 Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, Nobody and would appreciate any information that would enable us to do so. Set in Times New Roman, TrueType Produced through Longman Malaysia, ETS ISBN 0 582 21860 8 Acknowledgements I would express my sincere thanks to the following people who supplied extremelyuseful data while this work was being developed: Julia Alexander Mohamed Eid, Cairo, Egypt Professor Jacek Fisiak, O.B.E., Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland Cristina Germanis, Verona, Italy Jurgen Kienzler, Ludwigsburg, Germany RoyKingsbury Professor Hanna Komorowska, University of Warsaw, Poland Gottfried Kumpf, Vaihingen, Germany Chris Lynch, Tokyo, Japan Penelope Parfitt Professor T. Takenaka, Kagawa University, Japan Longman English Grammar Series byL. G. Alexander Longman English Grammar: a reference grammar for English as a foreign language Step by Step 1-3: graded grammar exercises (beginners` to pre-intermediate level) Longman English Grammar Practice: reference and practice (intermediate level) Longman Advanced Grammar: reference and practice (advanced level) The Essential English Grammar: a handy reference grammar (all levels) Contents Introduction viii Reference Section 1-201 Test Yourself 203 Up to Intermediate Level 1 Social exchanges 204 2 Cars and driving 205 3 Adjectives: opposites 206 4 Adjectives and noun modifiers 206 5 Asking, requesting, commanding 207 6 Telephoning 207 7 Appearance, etc., of people and things 208 8 Descriptions, etc. 208 9 Containers 209 10 Countable and uncountable nouns 210 11 Time and frequency 211 12 Health 212 13 Holidays 212 14 `Be`,`get`,`go`,`make`, etc. 213 15 Work and jobs 214 16 Buildings and parts of buildings 214 17 Verbs/verb phrases with and without prepositions 215 18 Occupations, etc. 216 19 Words easily confused, misspelt, etc. 217 20 Prepositional phrases 218 21 Only one negative 218 22 -ed/-ing 218 23 Addressing people 219 24 Names of places 219 25 Doing things for people 220 26 Movement to and from 220 27 The human body 221 28 Furniture 221 29 Money 222 30 Adverbs 223 31 Comparatives and superlatives 223 32 Four topics: 224 1The weather 2The news 3Luck and misfortune 4Keeping clean 33 Questions and exclamations 225 34 Quantities and amounts 226 35 Travelling by train 227 36 Outside 228 37 `Do`, `make` and `have` 229 v ... - tailieumienphi.vn