Richard A. Spears Knihy

With more than 7,000 up-to-date phrases, this dictionary covers situations from talking to a doctor to ordering a meal, and helps learners communicate personal feelings, and make small talk.

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs is a comprehensive reference featuring over 24,000 entries, including phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, and clichés. Each entry is defined with example sentences, and it offers a Phrase-Finder Index with more than 60,000 entries, showcasing contemporary American English.

Helps in learning idioms is as easy as apple pie. This reference defines hundreds of contemporary American idiomatic expressions and shows how to use them in real-life situations. It also teaches you more than 2,100 idioms, each exemplified with contextual sentences.

Covering American English verbs, this reference explains more than 2,400 contemporary American phrasal verbs and illustrates their use in real-life situations. Each entry includes a full-sentence example.

Contains definitions for 8,500 colorful idioms and expressions of contemporary English, also includes example sentences, and an index to the major words in each expression

"NTC's Dictionary of American English phrases, " by Richard A. Spears, Ph.D., provides more than 15,000 examples of usage for approxiamtely 7,000 common and useful American English expressions.

More than 3,000 contemporary expressions cover all aspects of basic communication, for intermediate and advanced learners of English.

NTC's core vocabulary for learners of American English features simplified definitions and example sentences for every entry. Irregular forms of nouns and verbs appear as separate entries as well as spellings of adverbs in the comparative and superlative.