word frequency list american english

... contextualization The word list at the end of the book contains all the words practiced in the exercises In addition to the new items, this list includes all those words presented in Word Power 1500 ... Miyazaki Trang 5 This is the second of a series of three books in American English whose purpose is to help students build up their English vocabulary Particular attention has been paid to college ... Trang 2 Lh : ỷ gee L.A HILL WORD POWER Vocabulary Tests and Exercises in American English ann AoE ON IVOON OOH YG ONO) $75 ha NA DOW AVE NHOOHG-/9

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2022, 16:20

... Trang 1 Word Part of Speech, Meaning a pivotal figure a premium price a range of (n) day, hang; pham ... chi bộ; am (nhà nhỏ một gian của ẩn sĩ); (thơ ca) túp lều tranh, căn nhà nhỏ; (thơ ca) nấm mồ cellist Viola; the bass member of the violin family census (n) việc tính toán dân số một cách chính ... đống lộn xôn; túm tụm vào với nhau; nằm rúc vào nhau; hội ý riêng, hội ý bí mật hummingbird tiny American bird whose rapidly flapping wings produce a humming sound hurl (n) sự ném mạnh, cái ném

Ngày tải lên: 19/08/2013, 14:15

... 106 REVIEW: THE AUXILIARY FORMS 162 — Select the correct word or words from the parentheses in each sentence Do not add any other word or words to the sentence Everyone (must, has) to take the ... the word in parentheses in each sentence Do not change the position of the word WWW Www N NY Bờ NN NH HN ft PO DR we mm mm mm Bw NE SCVOIAKRENESOCHRUADREDASvocwHmUudAuanun _ Mr Mendez learned English ... company for ten years 2 I (listen) to the professor's comments very carefully I have been listening to the professor's comments very carefully Frank and Richard (work) on their English lessons all evening

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 18:20

... objects .277 Understanding two-word verbs 278 Using two-word verbs ou msn 279 Prepositions with two-word verbs .280 Word order (1) ¬ Word order (2) Word order (3) Word order (4} “The Traveler” ... clearly 10 We learn new English words in class every day 11 Does your friend Roger speak English? 12 Do Mr Meyer and Mr Berg speak English well? 13 On the whole, the English language is easy l4 ... ABOUT YOUR ENGLISH CLASS 77 Answer these questions about your English class Read the questions carefully Notice the position of all the words in the question Compare the position of the words in

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 18:20

... go to see him or Let’s go and see him The American variety sounds to Englishmen archaic It helped make the performance spectacular is more typical of American usage BE will have exactly the same ... called phrasal verbs These are combinations of a verb and a function word (or two function words) that may also function in English sen- tences as a preposition Trang 7 which often differs from ... preposition Here are some examples: an American will say either it’s three after twelve or its three past twelve whereas an Englishman only it’s three past twelve An American may say it’s ten (minutes)

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 18:20

... masters of ceremonies in American and Vietnamese reality television (TV) shows. The data for analysis in this thesis are 160 examples of opening and closing speeches in American English and Vietnamese ... examples of each American opening speeches (AOSs), Vietnamese opening speeches (VOSs), American closing speeches (ACSs) and (VCSs) Vietnamese closing speeches in some popular American and Vietnamese ... Vietnamese and American languages. They can hopefully be beneficial not only for people working as masters of ceremonies (MCs) but also for students, teachers, users of American English and Vietnamese

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 12:41

... but it’s very important in North American English mad … pat … shack Vowel discrimination practice Here are some 3 4 Dade dead shape Shep made med trait tread words that contrast these five vowel ... different ways of pronouncing –ed endings how and when not to stress words and syllables two more indispensable North American English speech sounds: the intervocalic d or t flap and the unstressed ... vowel sound 6 In fact, many dialects of North American English use only 6, and don’t use 7 at all Typed and edited by trung1906 29 Here are some words 6 7 cod cawed baht bought cot caught mod

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 13:40

... ldiomaric American English A Step-by-Step Workbook for Learning Everyday American Expressions Barbara K. Gaines KODANSHA INTtr RNATIONAL ... presented here, ancl listen carefully to horv native Americans use them. You will soon be usir-rg them confldently vourself. At the end of the book is a complete Glossarv, listing all the ... the kind of ir-rformal, everyday speech-including many slang words as well as idioms-that is commonly undersLood by all native Americans, no matter what their level of education. There

Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2014, 08:28

... status, situation etc It means both Vietnamese and American English are flexible in using directness and indirectness In other words, American English is not always direct and Vietnamese is not ... ỘExclamation+ Reason+ Thanking wordỢ (Ngan, 2010) Example: (Ngan, 2010, p.11-12) Vietnamese American Exclamation | Reason Thanking Negative Thanking | Reason word word word Da Em/ Tô/ Cảm on chi/ ... knowledge of directness in American English and Vietnamese conversations 3.4.2 Material generalization Basing on analyzing directness in conversations in American English and Vietnamese, structures

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 06:12

... Vocabulary list Business English I Unit 4 Managing Across Cultures collectivist competition cultural diversity foreign markets globalization glocalization individualist localization ... pay-for-performance sales rep(resentative) stereotype universalist Vocabulary list Business English I Unit 5 Recruitment (job) vacancy ... be results oriented to hire to promote to resign to/a shortlist Vocabulary list Business English I Unit 6 Women in Business (compulsory/voluntary)

Ngày tải lên: 10/07/2014, 20:36

... of new words to meet their various needs.  The future of American English  Since World War II, American English has been developing and changing. There is no doubt that American English ... development of the American English.  American English has developed a character of its own, reflecting the life and the physical and social environment of the American people.  The Americans invented ... recognition of the American variety or standard of English.  In 1806, Noah Webster first used “American English”. Webster stated that his countrymen had not only the right to adopt new words but

Ngày tải lên: 13/07/2014, 23:24

... remember the words on this page? Test yourself or a partner MultiROM www.oup.com/eIVamericanenglishfile/3 Irregular verbs C!!I!II!IllI MultiROM www.oup.com/elt/americanenglishfile/3 English sounds ... armchair dresser b Add two more words to each column Can you remember the words on this page? Test yourself or a partner o p.58 mlmI MultiROM www.Qup.com/eltjamericanenglishfile/3 Work Describing ... IIEfI Can you remember the words on this page? Test yourself or a partner o p.76 ~ MultiROM www.oup.com/eIVamericanenglishfile/3 Shopping VOCABULARY BANK Places a Match the words and pictures department

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:21

... between is combined with “or,” pitting a dual word and a sin- gular word: “It’s a choice between right or wrong.” Right and wrong, or else a choice of. The words choose, decide, and decision also lead ... told of a gathering of “100,000 bikers,” repeatedly using that word and never once explaining that they were motorcyclists. Bicyclists may gather in groups too. See NOT TO MENTION for a similar ... state) See also 10 15 Two words always capitalized The words I and O (without an h, as in “O God”) are always capitalized 16 Verse Traditional verse capitalizes the first word of

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... cans.” In listing differences between British English and American English, two En- glish lexicographers present “different from or to” as the British way and “dif- ferent than” as the American ... meanings, as pro- and be do Any word should be kept intact if dividing it might mislead readers When isolated, a part of a word like hasten and often tends to form a word in itself with a different ... destructive. The two words imply widespread ruin and desolation. If an earthquake took no lives or houses, how could it be “devastating”? It was announced on another televi- sion program: “An American city

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... of a simpler and better word. . . .” Theodore Bernstein found the verb turned into “a fuzzy, all-purpose word” in place of various precise words. Just 52 percent of The American Heritage Dic- ... “confus- ing the sense of a good English word.” His reviser, Sir Ernest Gowers, wrote that a reason for its popularity was that it could convey the meanings of two words at once; he cited puzzle ... by magic or meta- morphosis—a journalist said a politician who changed jobs had “metamorpho- sized.” See also FACT- words, 2 (end). 2. -ISE In Britain the American -ize, the origi- nal British

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... Society for Pure English: If . . . ‘normalcy’ is ever to become an accepted word it will presumably be because the late President Harding did not know any better. The Oxford English Dictionary ... contrary to the United Nations’ wishes, leaving the Americans “little choice but to blow them out of the sky” (a non sequitur). “Little choice”? The Americans had the choice of not blowing them out ... on its meaning in a sentence. A pedagogic and journalistic rule has long held it to be singular only. Indeed its original ver- sion, in Old English, nan, meant not one: it was a fusion of ne,

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... they are single words: break- throughs, forget-me-nots, knockouts, ne’er-do-wells, takeoffs, and words end- ing in -ful, like cupfuls and spoonfuls. C. Creatures; peculiarities English has a variety ... factions to put the Populist party on a national basis in 1892. . . . The Populist party nominated James Weaver of Iowa for president in 1892 Four years later the Populist party fused with the ... party, but not the party it- self, was called Populist. Weaver, for instance, was a Populist. The farmer’s movement of that era was known as the Populist movement or Populism. PORE and POUR. See

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... To quote is to repeat someone’s words, usually acknowledging that they are another’s words. You might quote a sentence, quote (a passage from) a book, quote (words of) Shakespeare or the pope, ... consid- ered derogatory, became the accepted word. In the eighties African-American caught on as a formal term. It has less utility, covering only Americans; it would not include, say, a black ... natural- ized American who was one of the race and nationality 353 R 04-R–Z_4 10/22/02 10:33 AM Page 353 [...]... “Native American as a synonym Users of that term exclude most native-born Americans

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... 2. “-WOMAN” Some journalists and broadcasters who cannot abide the gracelessness and ignorance represented by that illegiti- mate word are drawn to another three- syllable word: In Washington, ... enter the square should first be able to spell the word ‘supremist.’ ” The trouble with his joke was that no such word existed. He needed the word supremacist. A supremacist is one who believes ... that repetition per se is undesirable and repeating a word in a sentence or paragraph (or other unit) is an evil. It is characteristic of journalists but not restricted to them. Six newspa- pers,

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21