Hardcover, Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English Review

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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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Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English Review

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(More customer reviews)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.

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* 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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