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The improved design makes verbs easier to find, and there is a new, simpler grammatical coding.</div></div></div><div class="search_box_wrapper"></div></td> </tr></table><div id="summary-second-column"></div></div></div></div></div><div class=vertical_module_list_row><h3 class=about_title><a name="toc_anchor"></a>Contents</h3><div id=toc class=about_content><div id=toc_v><div class="first_toc_column"><div class="first_toc_pad"><table><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>THE DICTIONARY 1421 </span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>422</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap">432487 </span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>432</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>List of sources 488493 </span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>488</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr></table></div></div><div class="second_toc_column"><div class="second_toc_pad"><table><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Index of nouns etc used in headphrases 494513 </span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>494</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Index of nominalized forms 514517 </span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>514</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Copyright</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" 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Cowie</span></a></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Authors</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Anthony+Paul+Cowie%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=2"><span dir=ltr>Anthony Paul Cowie</span></a>, <a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Ronald+Mackin%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=2"><span dir=ltr>Ronald Mackin</span></a></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Contributor</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>Ronald Mackin</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Edition</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>2, reprint</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Publisher</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>Oxford University Press, 1993</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Original from</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>University of Iowa</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Digitized</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>27 Jul 2023</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>ISBN</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>0194312844, 9780194312844</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Length</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>517 pages</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Subjects</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><div style="display:inline" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb"><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22Foreign+Language+Study%22" itemprop="url" dir=ltr><span itemprop="title">Foreign 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