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Variation in the use of complex verbs in international English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Samuel Ahulu
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Abstract

The third part of an investigation into similar usages at work in the standard English of West Africa and India (first part, ET38, Apr 94; second part, ET40, Oct 94)

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English Today , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 1995 , pp. 28 - 34
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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