Carti in categoria Grammar & Language

The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English is revolutionary – the first entirely corpus-based grammar of English. It is an essential reference tool for serious students of English and linguistics as well as people involved in ELT methodology and materials writing. Features "Anyone with a serious interest in English grammar will have to take into account the information this book contains." David Crystal Over 350 tables and graphs show the frequency of constructions ...

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 Author(s) : Douglas Biber , Susan Conrad , Geoffrey Leech No. of pages : 480 Year : 2002...