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A Sentence Dictionary
By Eric Neal
Rupa & Co | 1991 | ISBN: N/A | PDF | 423 pages | 17.4 mb
scanned to PDF by me.

Careful investigations have shown that children understand many words more easily by seeing them used in appropriate sentences than by trying to understand their synonyms listed in a dictionary. The 10,000 words in A Sentence Dictionary are therefore used in sentences skilfully written to make them interesting to students. A special feature is the use of a symbol to separate the meanings of a word, or its uses as different parts of speech. All words, including derivations, are listed alphabeti-cally, since not all users of a dictionary of this kind can be expected to know, for example, that to find the spelling of bought one has to look up buy.
The author is a teacher who has been dealing with pupils' written work in a variety of subjects for many years and has carried out a number of investigations into children's vocabularies and their spelling difficulties. Also he has observed how often children look up a word in their school dictionary and then have to ask the teacher what the explanation means.