Collate

This section will show you the very critical distinguishability between words in terms of their meanings and usages. In every corner of e-grammar we have put all our flesh and blood researching on how-to-be-flexible collators!

Words Collating:

The aim of this e-book is to help learners of English to use individual words correctly and to choose the right words and structures for the meaning they want to convey. Each entry is based on the latest evidence in the Cobuild corpus, so that both learners and teachers will find the book useful as an authoritative reference on how English is actually used today. A priority has been to make it clear which words and structures are used in conversation, and which should only be used in writing. Differences between British and American usage are also clearly indicated.

For ease of access, entries are arranged alphabetically. When information about the use of a word, or additional relevant information, is to be found in an entry under another headword, a cross-reference is given.

Tenses Collating:

Speech is a continuous stream of sound without a clear division into units, but it can be analyzed into meaningful elements which recur and combine according to rules. In writing, such an analysis is expressed through the division into words and sentences. Far more distinctions are needed, however, for a proper grammatical description.

Our primary task in this section is to introduce, define, and illustrate the grammatical terms and categories used to talk about these units throughout this e-book. At the same time, however, we will present new information about the general distributional patterns of the major grammatical categories.