3rd Edition

A Communicative Grammar of English

By Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik Copyright 2002
    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 ‘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.

    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.