Sentence examples for essential English from inspiring English sources

The truth is that the long deferred but now essential English question is really two questions.

One of the greatest editors and journalists is Harold Evans, who has written one of the best books on journalistic writing, Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers.

The service is very simple: by dialling "3000", mobile users access classes ranging from "Essential English" to the more advanced "How to tell a story".

★★ Waitrose Essential English Cheddar 180g, £1.59 This is too salty, so salty that it's by far the strongest flavour that's coming through.

Raymond Murphy, 65, below, whose book English Grammar in Use and follow up, Essential English Grammar in Use, have become staples of classrooms around the world, received an honorary MA from Cambridge University last month.

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It helps new immigrants, most of them women from Spanish-speaking countries, to acquire job skills, get business pointers and — the essential — learn English.

But then one reason Scott Moncrieff's Proust sounds so Jamesian is that James's circularity sustains sexual euphemism in a way that Proust's more clinical kind does not, and those euphemisms were essential to English publication.

At the time of his death, he was as essential to English poetry as Philip Larkin or Ted Hughes, but he was also the one who got away, and there's a case to be made for him as the greatest poet California has ever produced.

Despite a push to increase Mandarin teaching by outfits like the British Council, the government's soft-power arm, the number of GCSE entrants is still under 3,000 and concentrated in private schools.A reason for Britain's poor record of producing linguists may also lie in the thought that they are not essential, because English dominates.

As early as 1740, the British merchant Malachy Postlethwayt, arguing for parliamentary subsidies for slave trade as essential to English prosperity, described the trade's "triangular nature". British ships carried manufactured goods to West Africa, where they were exchanged with local rulers for slaves.