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Longman grammar of spoken and written English

Author: Douglas Biber
Publisher: Harlow, England ; [New York] : Longman, 1999.
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Longman grammar of spoken and written English.
Harlow, England ; [New York] : Longman, 1999
(OCoLC)743250827
Named Person: Englisch
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Douglas Biber
ISBN: 0582237254 9780582237254 0582339316 9780582339316
OCLC Number: 41185160
Description: xxviii, 1204 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents: Introduction: a corpus-based approach to English grammar --
Word and phrase grammar --
Clause grammar --
Nouns, pronouns, and the simple noun phrase --
Verbs --
Variation in the verb phrase: tense, aspect, voice, and modality --
Adjectives and adverbs --
Complex noun phrases --
The form and function of complement clauses --
Adverbials --
Word order and related syntactic choices --
The grammatical marking of stance --
Lexical impressions in speech and writing --
The grammar of conversation --
Appendix --
Endnotes --
Bibliography --
Lexical index --
Conceptual index.
Other Titles: Grammar of spoken and written English
Responsibility: Douglas Biber [and others] ; foreword by Randolph Quirk.

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One of the best grammar book i ever gone through

by rajivkumar900 (WorldCat user published 2012-03-09) Excellent Permalink

Longman Grammar of spoken and written english book is one of the best grammar book i ever found in my learning career. you will find this stuff really useful, and one of best thing in longman's books is simplicity.

whats more you can learn yourself, its a kind of self learning reference.

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