PRACTICAL ENGLISH USAGE

About this book

English, like all languages, is changing, and British English is currently beingquite strongly influenced by American English. Consequently, some usageswhich were unusual in standard British English a few decades ago have nowbecome common - for example, the use of like as a conjunction (e.g. like I do), orthe use of Do YOll have . .. ? to ask about the immediate present (e.g. Do you havea light?>. The third edition takes account of a number of changes of this kind, inorder to give a fully up-to-date description of contemporary usage.