The book contains twenty chapters and a guide to further reading. It is based on a sounder and more consistent descriptive framework than previous large-scale grammars, and includes much more explanation of grammatical terms and concepts, together with justification for the ways in which the analysis differs from traditional grammar. It incorporates insights from the theoretical literature but presents them in a way that is accessible to readers without formal training in linguistics. It represents a major advance over previous grammars by virtue of drawing systematically on the linguistic research carried out on English during the last forty years. Publisher description: This book presents a new and comprehensive descriptive grammar of English, written by the principal authors in collaboration with an international research team of a dozen linguists in five countries. It contains exercises, and will provide a basis for introductions to grammar and courses on the structure of English not only in linguistics departments but also in English language and literature departments and schools of education. This book is intended for students in colleges or universities who have little or no previous background in grammar, and presupposes no linguistics.
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Errors of the older tradition of English grammar are noted and corrected, and the excesses of prescriptive usage manuals are firmly rebutted in specially highlighted notes that explain what older authorities have called 'incorrect' and show why those authorities are mistaken. The analyses defended there are outlined here more briefly, in an engagingly accessible and informal style. With extensive corpus research at its core, it provides over 500 entries organised into an easy-to-use A-Z structure. English Grammar Today is an indispensable reference guide to contemporary English grammar and usage. This groundbreaking undergraduate textbook on modern Standard English grammar is the first to be based on the revolutionary advances of the authors' previous work, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002). A major grammar reference book of modern English, specially written for intermediate learners of English.
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