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
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
Table Of Contents
* 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
