This volume gives you three books in one. The dictionary section offers comprehensive coverage of today`s English, with over 145,000 words, phrases, and definitions, while the thesaurus has over 333,000 alternative words. Other features include clear and straightforward guidance on grammar and usage in the form of in-text boxes and thousands of example sentences illustrating words in use. The Wordpower Guide offers extra help to enrich and develop your vocabulary, and includes a section on foreign words and phrases, information on collective names foranimals and birds, useful vocabulary for word games, lists of common confusables, a section on selecting the right word, an extensive Wordbuilder section which gives instant links to related words, and a section on difficult or unusual words.