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This book, for foreign students, is a guide to the composition of idiomatic English. Idiom is as much a matter of correct word order as of wide vocabulary or knowledge of syntax: and in this book Mr Hornby describes and tabulates the chief English sentence and phrase patterns, and sets down the numerous idiomatic ways of expressing time - relations and other common concepts. The tables of Verb Patterns in Part 1 are an expanded version of those in the Introduction to The Advanced Learner''s Dictionary of Current English of which Mr Hornby is chief editor. They follow the same system of numbering.