Longman's Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English Paper

by Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad, Geoffrey N. Leech, et al.

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582237262
• ISBN13: 9780582237261
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Pearson Education ESL
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent grammar book.

An easy to read grammar book that ALSO includes information on using grammar in different registers (academic prose, news, fiction, and conversation). Wonderful for advanced learners studying English as a second language.

Good but

It is written by the very famous British English experts. It's excellent. I wish there would be an American English Grammar book like this.

Longman Student Grammar of spoken and written English

Accessible and easy to use, this corpus-based grammar is full of fresh insights about the behavior of the English, rigester differences and variation across speech and writing.It will prove equally beneficial for those who already love grammar and want to know more about it as well as those who are aware of the importance of grammar but are still afraid of approaching it. I highly recommmend it.