A Student's Companion - Vocabulary and Grammar

Title : Vocabulary and Grammar ISBN : 981 4107 85 9 Specifications : 10 x 150 mm 480 pages Target readers : Secondary students & adult learners   Published Price : TBA

About the Book
For learners to speak and write English well they need to have a good knowledge of grammar and a good vocabulary. In this book the first section is on vocabulary, providing ample information on synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, idioms, phrasal verbs, foreign words in English and much, much more. The second section deals with the fundamentals of English grammar.

Learners will find this reference book invaluable, whether they use it to look up the right word or to study the topics systematically. They will be able to bring variety and accuracy to their spoken and written English.

Authors
George Davidson is a graduate in French and General Linguistics of the University of Edinburgh. He has taught French and linguistics at secondary school and college level, and has carried out research into the linguistics of the Indo-European languages. He is a former senior editor with W & R Chambers of Edinburgh, and is the author of several books on English grammar, usage and spelling. His main areas of interest are grammar and punctuation.

George Stern studied and taught language for more than four decades. He taught for almost ten years in the state and private school systems in Australia. For over thirty years he was a Fellow and Consultant Lecturer in Linguistics at the Australian National University. For three years he was Language Consultant to the Department of the Commonwealth Reporting Staff (Hansard) in Canberra. He was a member of the Systemic Functional Grammar Association, the Australian Linguistics Society and PEN International.