Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English - Softcover

Douglas Biber; Susan Conrad; Geoffrey Leech

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9780582237261: Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0582237262 ISBN 13: 9780582237261
Publisher: Pearson Education ESL, 2002

Synopsis

  • 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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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Pearson Education ESL
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0582237262
ISBN 13 
9780582237261
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
496
Rating
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