Whether you are a student, a teacher of English, or someone whose first language is not English, you will not fail to gain from this book a deeper understanding of language, communication, and the structure of English.

But the authors, Professor Sir Randolph Quirk and Professor Gabriele Stein, have also in mind the needs of the general reader who wants to know about English and how to use it to better effect. They emphasise the role of Standard English as well as the beauty and effectiveness of English at its best in creative literature.

“English in use” is a valuable advance on its highly successful predecessor, “The Use of English”. It presents an authoritative account of the nature of English today: its influence, the influences upon it, the subtleties of its vocabulary, and the complexities of its grammar.

(from the back cover of the book)


豊田昌倫、伊藤栄子両氏による邦訳がある(1995)。


内容（「MARC」データベースより）
国際コミュニケーションの手段として重要性を高める英語。文法から文学に至る全ての面を手際よく解説し、英語へのより知的なアプローチを促す最上のガイドブック。