About Keeping Language Clean: A guide to usage and grammar in English

This book follows a straightforward A-Z format, which makes it simple to use. The book is designed to equip readers with some requisite tools and techniques to enable them tackle the apparently daunting undertaking of communicating effectively in English. Emphasis throughout is on keeping language clean by a mastery of diverse collocation and usage patterns in the language. To appropriately empower you to keep your language and English clean, the book has: * More than 300 different entries, following an easy-to-follow A-Z structure * Hundreds of authentic, practical illustrations to elucidate usage in English *Illustrations and examples of contemporary English, written and spoken *Examples depicting differences between BrE, AmE, and SNE *Examples that appropriately place the learning of grammar in proper context *Focus on pronunciation skills; telling hints on transcription and mechanical aspects *Elements of English grammar as a basis for understanding diverse usage items.