| Table of Contents |
| Foreword | by Miss L. W. Lockhart | v. |
| SECTION ONE: | BASIC ENGLISH | 1 |
| Editor's Note | 3 |
| Part One : | A GENERAL INTRODUCTION |
| 1 . Introductory | 5 |
| 2 . The Basic Approach | 18 |
| 3 . Teaching and Learning | 38 |
| Part Two : | A SHORT GUIDE TO BASIC ENGLISH | 47 |
| 1 . What Is Basic English? | 47 |
| 2 . Basic as an International Language | 49 |
| 3 . How the 850 Words Do Their Work | 52 |
| 4 . Basic as an Instrument of Though | 58 |
| 5 . The Learning of Basic | 61 |
| 6 . The Teaching of Basic | 71 |
| 7 . Basic for Science | 75 |
| 8 . Basic for Business | 82 |
| 9 . Sixteen Years, 1927-1943 | 87 |
| 10. The Future | 92 |
APPENDICES :
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A. Basic English - Its Present Position and Plans,
a paper by J. A. Lauwerys | 97
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| B. Churchill and Roosevelt on Basic English | 111 |
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| SECTION TWO: | The System in Detail |
| Part One : | THE ABC OF BASIC ENGLISH (full contents) | 119 |
| On Learning the Basic Words | 119 |
| The First Step: | 1. Things; 2. Qualities | 122 |
| A . I . | Simple Statements | 134 |
| A . II . | Word-Order | 153 |
| B . I . | Other Word-Forms | 168 |
| B . II . | Expansions and Special Senses | 183 |
| B . III . | Special Uses | 212 |
| C. | A Key Selection | 223 |
| The Last Step | 1. Points, 2. International Words, 3. Science | 233 |
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| Part Two : | THE BASIC WORDS | 238 |
| Editor's Note | 238 |
| The Basic Words - makes clear every word in Basic list. | 241-365 |
| Measuring Note | 365 |
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| SECTION THREE: | Examples |
| Part One : | GOVERNMENT |
| 1 . The Gettysburg Address
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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| 2 . The Atlantic Charter and the Prime Minister's Statement | 373 |
| 3 . The Rights of Man
H.G.WELLS | 381 |
| Part Two : | SCIENCE |
| 0 . Science Word-lists |
| 1 . From The Basic Dictionary of Science (1966) | 394
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| 2 . "On Scales" from Possible Worlds
J.B.S.HALDANE | 398 |
| 3 . From The Sea and Its Living Things
H.STAFFORD HATFIELD | 403 |
| 4. "Evolutions" from The Growth of Science
A.P.ROSSITER | 421 |
| 5. Basic English and the British Standards Institution | 435 |
| Part Three : | THE BIBLE. words for verse and Bible | 441 |
| 1 . Note from The Bible in Basic English | 442 |
| 2 . The Making of the Earth (Genesis, 1) | 443 |
| 3 . Saul Is Put Down by God (I Samuel, 15) | 445 |
| 4 . The Testing of Job (Job, 1, 2) | 449 |
| 5 . The Birth of Christ (Matthew, 2) | 452 |
| 6 . Jesus Goes to Jerusalem (Mark, 11) | 454 |
| Part Four : | FICTION | 457 |
| 1 . From Little Women by Louisa May Alcott | 457 |
| 2 . From Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw | 464 |
| 3 . From Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson | 489 |
| BOOK LIST | | 501 |
| INDEX TO THE BASIC WORDS | 505 |
| GENERAL INDEX | | 521 |