Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Based on the insights and discoveries of the ground-breaking Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English, this new book brings fresh perspectives to the study of English grammar.
The Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a pedagogical course book for advanced students at university or on teacher-training courses, and an invaluable reference grammar. It combines a comprehensive examination of grammatical structure with information about the ‘how', ‘when' and ‘why' of English as it is really used.
Table of Content
- Introduction: a discourse perspective on grammar
- Words and word classes
- Introduction to phrases and clauses
- Nouns, pronouns, and the simple noun phrase
- Verbs
- Variation in the verb phrase: tense, aspect, voice, and model use
- Adjectives and adverbs
- Exploring the grammar of the clause
- Complex noun phrases
- Verb and adjective complement clauses
- Adverbials
- Word order choices
- The grammar of conversation
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Salient Features
- Examines patterns of use in the news, fiction and academic English
- Takes grammar and vocabulary together and looks at how they interact
- Is based on the analysis of 40-million words of British and American, written and spoken corpus text
- Uses over 3000 examples of real, corpus English to illustrate the points
- Uses frequency tables and graphs to make the new findings of this grammar clear
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