A Communicative Grammar of EnglishA Communicative Grammar of English has long been established as a grammar innovative in approach, reliable in coverage, and clear in its explanations. This fully revised and redesigned third edition provides up-to-date and accessible help to teachers, advanced learners and undergraduate students of English. Part One looks at the way English grammar varies in different types of English, such as ‘formal’ and ‘informal’, ‘spoken’ and ‘written’; Part Two focuses on the uses of grammar rather than on grammatical structure and Part Three provides a handy alphabetically arranged guide to English grammar. A new workbook, The Communicative Grammar of English Workbook also accompanies this edition. |
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A Communicative Grammar of English Geoffrey N. Leech,Geoffrey Leech,Jan Svartvik No preview available - 2002 |
Common terms and phrases
adjectives adverbial already answer arrived asked auxiliary beginning better called cause CGEL choice clause commands common Compare complement condition construction contains contrast coordination definite determiners direct element ending English event example expressed feel formal friends function future genitive give given grammar head hope idea important indicate infinitive language leave less linking look mass nouns meaning meeting modifiers negative never Note Notice noun phrase object occur omitted operator participle passive past perfect person play plural position possible prepositional present progressive pronoun questions reason reference relation relative clause seen sentence singular sometimes speak speaker speech spoken statement stay stress subclause tell tense that-clause thing tone unit usually verb verb phrase whole writing written