Introductory Note........................... 3

1. Advice................,■..’*■’»■> «*;-.... 5

2.Alive, live, living, lively................ 8

• 3. Alone, lonely............................ 15

■■ ‘ 4. Awake, awaken, wake, waken 19

««-. 5. Childish, childlike............... 25

‘; ^;l 6. Cloth, cloths, clothes.................. 30

. i 7. Comic, comical....................... 34

8. Comprehensive, comprehensible...... 39

9. Concert, concerto.............................. 43

 

10.Conscious, conscientious; consciousness, conscience... 47

11.Considerable, considerate............. 53

12.Contemptuous, contemptible........ 59

13.Content, contents........................... 63

14.Continual, continuous.................... 67

15.Distinct, distinctive.................... 73

16.Economic, economical................. 77

17.Effective, effectual, efficient, efficacious 84

18.Elementary, elemental.................... 89

19.Favourite, favourable..................... 94

20.Hair................................................ 98

21.Hard, hardly.................................. 103

22.Historic, historical......................... 108

23.Imaginative, imaginable, imaginary......... 112

24.Incredible, incredulous.... ,-,,,. щ** j 116

25.Industrial, industrious...»‘.’. ‘.■’•>*■- ’..^:. * -- • ■ -123

26.Intellectual, intelligent, intelligible.’ ;**,i’., «-*. 128

27.Lie, lay..................... V. ‘. Г.’......... 134

28.Literal, literary, literate.................. 143

29.Military, militant............................ 148

30.Money............................................ 153

31.News.............................................. 157

32.Politics, policy................................ 160

33.Rise, arise, raise, rouse, arouse...... 165

34.Sensible, sensitive.......................... 174

35.Successful, successive.................... 181

List of Grammatical Difficulties Included, with Explanations,
Examples from Literature and Exercises...... 185

1.The use of some numerals and nouns expressing number —

2.Some pronouns followed by an o/-phrase (some, any,
anyone, none, either, neither, each)............... 189

3.......................................................... (The) other(s), another 191

4.(A) few, (a) tittle.............................. 193

5. Many, much...................................... 197

6.The place of enough......................... 200

7. There is (there are) in negative constructions 201

8.The verb to have in negative sentences 20,’)

9.The use of the verb io make.............. 205

 

10. Yes and no used in replies to negative questions or state­
ments........................................................... 207

11. Too and either................................. 209239