Based on the acclaimed Grammar of Spoken and Written English, this corpus-based text provides advanced students with a detailed look at the elements of English grammar, including, how, why, and when to use different structures.
Special Features:
• Examines patterns of use in news, fiction, academic, and spoken English
• Takes grammar and vocabulary together and looks at how they interact
• Is based on an 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 frequently tables and graphs to make the new findings of this grammar clear