3rd Edition

A Communicative Grammar of English

By Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik Copyright 2002
456 Pages
by Routledge

456 Pages
by Routledge

456 Pages
by Routledge

A 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... Read more
Part One: A guide to the use of this book (Sections 1-56)
Part Two: Grammar in use (Sections 57-434)
Section A: Concepts
Section B: Information, reality and belief
Section C: Mood, emotion, attitude
Section D: Meanings in connected discourse
Part Three: A-Z in English grammar (Sections 435-747)

Biography

Geoffrey Leech is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University. Jan Svartvik is Professor of English at Lund University, Sweden.