A Student's Grammar of the English Language

This book is basically a shortened version of "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language" (1985). But it is very much more. It has been adapted to the needs of students, with much reorientation and simplification of the material in the parent book. Moreover, it has made use of research by ourselves and others that has been published since the mid-1980s, and this is reflected not only in the text throughout but also in the bibliographical references.File: multipage tif, paired pages, this file has all of pages, pages 320-321 are duplicate A Students Grammar of the English Language draws on the most recent research, including new findings not only in grammar but also in the neighbouring fields of semantics, pragmatics and text linguistics. Discourse features are dealt with throughout, as well as being the theme of a major chapter entitled form 'sentence to text' The authors are careful to point out those features of grammar which distinguish spoken from written, formal from informal, and British form American English. A shortened version of "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language" especially aimed at students of grammar in colleges and universities, drawing on linguistic research and including coverage of the differences between written and spoken English and between British and American English Longman, 1990. — 250 p. This book is basically a shortened version of A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (1985). It has been adapted to the needs of students with much orientation and simplification in the material of the parent book.