Book description

Nobody who is acquainted with English Phrases for a long time will forget that wonderful book of Grenville Kleiser's 15000 Useful phrases. It is a must for any English language student. It has eleven sections of phrases for different kind of users.
I.. Useful Phrase ..... ...... ...... .......
II. Significant Phrases ..... ...... ...... .......
III. Felicitous Phrases ..... ...... ...... .......
!V. Impressive Phrases..... ...... ...... .......
V.Prepositional Phrases..... ...... ...... .......
VI.Business Phrases..... ...... ...... .......
VII.Literary Expressions..... ...... ...... .......
VIII. Striking Similes..... ...... ...... .......
IX. Conversational Phrases..... ...... ...... .......
X. Public Speaking Phrases..... ...... ...... .......
XI. Miscellaneous Phrases..... ...... ...... .......
We might come across many out of date phrases. But there are many usable phrases which has a literary reference and many useful phrases act like a ready reckoner for the speakers and writers. Refer to the introduction by a great personality

INTRODUCTION

Frank H. Vizetelly.Litt.D, LL.D

The most powerful and the most perfect expression of thought and feeling through the medium of oral language must be traced to the mastery of words. Nothing is better suited to lead speakers and readers of English into an easy control of this language than the command of the phrase that perfectly expresses the thought.

Every speaker’s aim is to be heard and understood. A clear, crisp articulation holds an audience as by the spell of some irresistible power. The choice word, the correct phrase, are instruments that may reach the heart, and awake the soul if they fall upon the ear in melodious cadence; but if the utterance be harsh and discordant ;they fail to interest, fall upon deaf ears, and are as barren as seed sown on fallow ground.
In language, nothing conduces so emphatically to the harmony of sounds as perfect phrasing—that is, the emphasizing of the relation of clause to clause, and of sentence to sentence by the systematic grouping of words. The phrase consist usually of a few words which denote a single idea that forms a separate part of a sentence.

In this respect it differs from the clause, which is a short sentence that forms a distinct part of a composition, paragraph, or discourse. Correct phrasing is regulated by rests, such rests as do not break the continuity of a thought or the progress of the sense. You may not believe that the book was priced as just Rs.125/= for 264 pages in Demy size. Now it picked up a hotsales.