LEARNING BASIC ENGLISH
A Practical Handbook
for
English-Speaking People

By   I. A. RICHARDS
and
CHRISTINE GIBSON

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Contents

1 .	AN OVER-ALL VIEW	7
2 .	THE VOCABULARY	15
3 .	THE RULES	34
4 .	THE SIMPLIFICATION OF GRAMMAR	51
5 .	TRANSLATIONS INTO BASIC	59
6 .	INTERPRETATION	87
APPENDIX		107
	BASIC ENGLISH WORD LIST	109
	INTERNATIONAL WORDS	110
	LISTS OF WORDS FOR SPECIAL FIELDS	111
	SPECIAL LISTS	112
	INDEX	115