School Dictionary

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The School Dictionary has been specially written and designed for pupils for use at school or at home. The format is clear, straightforward, up to date and easy to use and it incorporates many useful features including easy-to-understand descriptions and example sentences. The introduction is especially helpful, in that it is simply written and is obviously aimed at children in words that can readily be understood. In so doing, it explains the aims of the dictionary and what it contains, such as word content, meanings and spellings and pronunciation guides. The next feature highlights "using the dictionary" beginning with the layout of the pages followed by explanations of the terminology in the text. These again are clearly well thought out and are easy to follow, especially the definitions of the parts of the speech referred to throughout. Particularly useful is the information about word families and word origins.