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3rd edition.
Dy. 1/8. Pages 275.
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The revised and enlarged edition... now covers 7,673 words of general
utility and discusses in depth how one can achieve complete mastery of these
words and speak and write good English... The book includes an innovative
word-recall thesaurus. THE HINDU.
A fully revised and enlarged edition... The Complete Fluency Words, first
published in 1987, has been reprinted as many as 18 times and is now in its
third edition. This new edition covers 7673 words of the greatest general
utility and discusses in depth how one can achieve complete mastery of these
words and speak and write good English with the words flowing out readily
and easily. THE HINDU Business Line.
How are the words you need frequently in speech and writing related to
one another through 2048 key words?
This book, one of the worlds foremost authorities on English fluency
building, answers all these questions and many more.
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A Dictionary of
Essential combinations
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A core collection
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A Dictionary of
Then one of the most basic things you must understand is this: You shouldnt
try to produce most of what you say (or write) by stringing individual words
together, but by doing something entirely different: You should produce most
of what you say (or write) by stringing groups of words together. Not any old
group of words but groups of words that have fluency producing properties.
The fluency phrases covered by this book are word groups that have fluency
producing properties. Typically, a fluency phrase youll find in this book is a
sequence of words that contains an idea and forms a separate unit of
meaning. But theyre not opaque idioms or quasi-idioms, but word groups
whose meanings are, in general, transparent. They belong to a category of
expressions falling between collocations and traditional idioms. Traditional
grammar and linguistics dont have a separate name for them.
Heres a classic book by one of the worlds foremost authorities on English
fluency building. It gives you a comprehensive collection of these phrases a
rich collection that can add a smooth flow to your speech and writing. If you
want to be as natural and as articulate as a native speaker of English while
speaking or writing English, you must achieve a good command of these
phrases. How easily and well youre able to express your ideas, thoughts and
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A never-before collection
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Heres a pioneering work that gives you a core collection of verb + noun
combinations. Youll find these combinations grouped together under various
headwords in a dictionary layout. Remember this: No other type of word
combinations can solve as much of your fluency-related vocabulary problems
as verb + noun combinations can.
2nd edition.
Paperback.
Dy. 1/8. Pages 199.
So the vocabulary items that you use in speech must be those that have the
quality of making real-time processing and simultaneous presentation of
speech possible. Generally speaking, individual words dont have this quality.
No. But combinations of words do combinations of words that are closely
connected to one another. These are the kinds of word combinations that can
act as single units of meaning.
Of all kinds of word combinations, verb + noun combinations are the most
important ones for achieving true fluency in spoken English. This is because
speech is a process, and not a finished product like writing. Speech is a
dynamic process one that keeps on changing, evolving and progressing, a
happening that takes place in time. And whenever youre speaking, youre
engaged in a process the process of using words and communicating
something to somebody who youre speaking to at that very moment. And
verbs are the words that you need most help from in this process especially, verbs in combination with nouns that follow them.
While youre speaking (and not writing), what youre really doing is this:
From one angle, youre processing your ideas, thoughts and feelings aloud
with the aim of communicating them at the same time to your hearers. From
another angle, youre engaging in a process of interaction with them.
Thats why every articulate native speaker of English, as well as every fluent
non-native speaker of English, has a good command of a large number of prebuilt combinations of words.
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But even highly-educated people are often faced with two major problems:
First, adjectives and nouns that are compatible with each other do not often
occur to them readily. These words simply remain on the tip of their tongue.
Second, most A+N combinations that they put together randomly on the spot
(from individual adjectives and nouns) often turn out to be unacceptable
ones. Of course, the combinations they put together (randomly on the spot)
may be grammatically perfect and may sound all right from the point of view
of the meaning they want to convey. But often these combinations turn out to
be artificial combinations combinations that have not gained acceptance
among native speakers of English.
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Comprehensive
Adjectival Fluency Dictionary
by Prof. Kev Nair,
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If you wish to achieve a high degree of fluency in narrative English (that is,
the kind of English native speakers of English use while telling a story,
describing an event, making a presentation, etc.), you must master the skill of
getting your verb-and-noun combinations to pour out of your mouth smoothly
and easily. This book aims to help you gain this mastery.
And if you want to be able to use verbs fluently in speech or writing in a way
that a native speaker of English would find acceptable, its not enough if you
know their meaning, grammar and usage very well. You must also know what
nouns they can occur with, and have the experience of using those nouns and
verbs together in verb-and-noun combinations that are acceptable.
This book gives you a comprehensive collection of verb+noun combinations
that articulate native speakers of English use frequently in their speech and
writing. The importance of the way this book arranges these collocations is
this: This book arranges them verbwise that is, under headwords that are
all verbs. That is, this book tells you what nouns a given verb of everyday use
frequently goes with, and what shapes those combinations usually take. This
is the worlds first book that gives a verbwise compilation of verb-and-noun
combinations. (Prof. Kev Nairs own Dictionary of Active Fluency
Combinations is the worlds first book that gives a nounwise compilation of
verb-and-noun combinations.)
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The head-entries in this thesaurus are all phrasal verbs. Every day, pick up a
few head-entries (phrasal verbs) and browse through the words and word
groups listed under each. These words and word groups are the synonyms,
near-synonyms and other vocabulary items related to the head-entries.
This browsing work will help you in three ways: First, the browsing work
connects the phrasal verb (head-entry) in your mind with the words and word
groups under it. Second, each word/word group (listed under a head-entry)
helps you think of the head-entry (phrasal verb) from a different angle, and
so the browsing work helps you get a clear idea of the entire meaning-field of
each head-entry (phrasal verb). Third, the browsing work relates the words
and word groups under each head-entry with one another through their
common relationship to the phrasal verb (head-entry) and thus strengthens
your vocabulary-manipulation power.
So heres a great book that can help you achieve an excellent command not
only of phrasal-verbs, but also of their synonyms and near-synonyms and
thus a fluent command of English. In a way that dictionaries of phrasal verbs
cant.
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If you want to become good at this kind of English, you have to have a
practical command of the frequently occurring adverb + verb combinations
and adverb + adjective combinations.
This book is intended to help you achieve this practical command.
The head-entries in this first-of-its-kind thesaurus are all adverbs. Yes,
adverbs. Under each adverb-headword, youll find grouped separately the
verbs and adjectives that conventionally occur with that adverb.
So with this unique thesaurus to hand, you cant be at a loss to decide what
verbs and adjectives normally go with a given adverb.
To achieve fluency, you dont need a thorough theoretical understanding of
every minor detail about adverbs (or about any of the other parts of speech,
for that matter). What you should aim for is practical mastery. Yes, a fluent
command.
That is why the focus of your vocabulary-learning effort must not be
individual words, but clusters of words. Yes, clusters like the adverb + verb
clusters and adverb + adjective clusters this book concentrates on.
Every day, look up a few adverb-headwords. Browse through the verbs and
adjectives listed under each. Each adverb, together with the verbs and
adjectives listed under it, would build up a network of associations in your
mind.
This will help you achieve a good command not only of those adverbs, but
also of those verbs and adjectives. Remember this: The most effective way of
mastering adverbs is through the verbs and adjectives they tend to occur with.
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DJECTIVES ADD details, colour and interest to your speech and writing
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