Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English (Grammar Reference)

by Douglas Biber (Author), Douglas Biber (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $35.26

  * invaluable for students on university and teacher-training courses* checks your knowledge of how English is actually used in speech and writing* shows how grammar differs in different contexts of registers* provides practice with relationships between grammar and vocabulary* all examples taken from naturally occurring English texts and conversations* comparisons between British English and American English* spoken and written extracts throughout* full answer key

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $51.24

  * 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