EL001 Pre-Pathway Module 2010Grammar and Vocabulary DevelopmentSession 12

Lexical SetsComplexity in contextPattern grammar

Maddison counting

A long, passionate affair with numbers has finally come to an endApr 29th 2010 | From The Economist print edition

Office politics

Microsoft bids to keep its grip on corporate computing against Google's challengeMay 13th 2010 | SAN FRANCISCO | From The Economist online

The best books

The Economist's international correspondent on books about languageMay 4th 2010 | From The Economist online

Maddison counting : lexical sets

 

Angus Maddison John Maynard Keynes

Adam Smith

William Petty, the pioneer of “political

arithmetic”

The King The Dutch

Bart van Ark, now chief economist of

the Conference Board

Abu Fazl, vizier to Emperor Akbar

Maddison counting : lexical sets

 

April the 24th 1990 1995

1820 2001 1AD

A lengthening span of time

1665 The distant past

The 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century

83 13 £40m

A chiffrephile – a lover of figures estimate

A long passionate affair has finally come to an end

He had his first serious crush

Tickled his fancy

Pursued

National income Estimating GDP for a growing range of

countries

Estimated the income of England and Wales at £40m

A lot of economic progress

Living standards World output

PATTERN GRAMMAR

contrary provide supplied

imposed according explain

saw cared culminated

relied suffer deeply fond

doubted assumes described

disagree