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Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English. 1st Edition. by Douglas Biber (Author), Susan Conrad (Author), Geoffrey Leech (Author) 4.6 253 ratings. See all formats and editions. Examines patterns of use in the news, fiction and academic English. Takes grammar and vocabulary together and looks at how they interact.
Longman student grammar of spoken and written English. This grammar reference is written for the advanced student. It combines explanations of English grammar with information on how, when and why we use different structures. It shows the differences between spoken and written grammar and includes frequency information on the most common forms.
Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (LGSWE) is a descriptive grammar of English written by Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, and Edward Finegan, first published by Longman in 1999. It is an authoritative description of modern English, a successor to A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (ComGEL ...
The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English is an entirely new grammar of American and British English-from the language of conversation to the language of academic textbooks. There are no made-up examples in this groundbreaking new-gramar.
Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English. This grammar is based on the analysis of 40-million words of British and American, written and spoken corpus text and uses over 3000 examples of real, corpus English to illustrate the points.
Based on the acclaimed Longman 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. Illustrates how different grammatical choices are made in speech and various writing genres.
English grammar book that goes into great detail and specifics about everything grammatical. Covers both spoken and written English, with many corpus and graph examples to help explain concepts and uses.
* 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 ...
It combines explanations of English grammar with information on how, when and why we use different structures. It shows the differences between spoken and written grammar and includes frequency information of the most common forms. 496 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 2002.
The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a revolutionary, corpus-based reference grammar of English, based on a groundbreaking research project to analyze the ways in which English grammar is really used.