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(More customer reviews)This is an excellent descriptive grammar of the English language. A few months ago I compared several English grammars side-by-side, and this was one of the top two, the other being Quirk et al.'s far more [costly]work. In general, every construction is discussed in terms of a grammatical analysis (theory-neutral), quantitative analysis, and a functional analysis of the quantitative results. I've found the functional descriptions to be especially helpful.
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The Longman Grammar of Spoken andWritten English is a revolutionary,corpus-based reference grammar ofEnglish, based on a groundbreakingresearch project to analyze the waysin which English grammar is reallyused. The book looks at four texttypes conversation, fiction, newsreportage, and academic prose andreports statistical findings as well asexamining the reasons that conditiona particular grammatical choice.
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