Mastering American English is a comprehensive exercise book for use with adult students at the intermediate and advanced levels of language learning. The text is divided into two sections. | SAXON SERIES IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE GRANT TAYLOR Consulting Editor MASTERING AMERICAN ENGLISH WITH RECORDED EXERCISES FOR INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED STUDENTS BY GRANT TAYLOR Associate Professor of English Director American Language Institute Division of General Education New York University Formerly Assistant Director Foreign Student Center New York University Lecturer in English Columbia University Associate Editor Thorndike-Barnhart Comprehensive Desk Dictionary. McGraw-Hill Book Company New York St. Louis San Francisco Auckland Bogota Hamburg MASTERING American ENGLISH .5 6 7 8 90 FSP 9 4 3 2 Copyright 1956 by the McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc. All rights reserved. This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form without permission of the publishers. The United States Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 56-7883. 07-062942-0 SAXON SERIES IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE GRANT TAYLOR Consulting Editor LEARNING AMERICAN ENGLISH MASTERING AMERICAN ENGLISH PRACTICING AMERICAN ENGLISH AMERICAN ENGLISH READER ADVANCED ENGLISH EXERCISES MODERN SPOKEN ENGLISH MODERN ENGLISH WORKBOOK McCRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY INC. NEW YORK TORONTO I ONDON WN PPANIOKOO PREFACE Mastering American English is a comprehensive exercise book for use with adult students at the intermediate and advanced levels of language learning. The text is divided into two sections. The exercises which comprise Part One the Intermediate Section make an effective and concise review of the fundamental language materials treated fully in Learning American English Saxon Press Second Edition 1956 . Part Two the Advanced Section should accommodate extensive practice with those more complex features of English which demand of the student a good control over fundamentals. The text is based squarely on the principle that language mastery is achieved through 1 awareness and understanding of the common sentence patterns of the language and 2 constant and thorough practice with these patterns. The .
