Basic English Usage Exercises With Key BE OxfordBasic English Usage Exercises With Key Jennifer Seidl Michael Swan Oxford University PressOxford University Press Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 GDP Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogoté Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Paris SAo Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Oxford and Oxford English are trade marks of Oxford University Press. ISBN 0 19 431188 0 © Oxford University Press 1986 First published 1986 Eleventh impression 2001 Cartoons by Marie-Héiéne Jeeves Other illustrations by Katey Farrell, Alan Suttie Photographs by Reb Judges, Terry Williams The publishers would {ike to thank Hertz, Daimler- Benz AG, British Telecom and the International Wool Secretariat for permission to use trade marks and copyright material, and Barnabys, Camera Press, the Katz Photo Library, the Press Association, Rex Features and Sygma for permission to reproduce photographs. No unauthorized photocopying All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, siored in a retrieval system, or vansmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photoconying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Oxford University Press. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is pubiishea and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Typeset by Tradespools Ltd, Frome, Somerset Printed in China