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
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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.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780582237261
Publisert
2002-11-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Longman
Vekt
660 gr
Høyde
231 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
L, 07
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
496
Biographical note
Douglas Biber is Professor of Applied Linguistics (English Department) at Northern Arizona University. His books and articles deal with language use in spoken and written discourse.