A new edition of the ground-breaking undergraduate textbook on modern Standard English grammar, now completely rewritten and updated.

A thorough and precise account of all the major areas of English grammar. This elementary textbook provides a step-by-step account of English grammar for all students needing a short descriptive overview of the structure of English.

This book is intended for students in colleges or universities who have little or no previous background in grammar, and presupposes no linguistics.

The focus in this volume is on grammatical aspects of the clause in English, presenting a fine balance between theoretically- and descriptively-oriented approaches.

Written for students without knowledge of linguistics and unfamiliar with "traditional" grammar, this text concentrates on providing a much needed foundation in Standard English in preparation for more advanced work in theoretical ...

Full details of the corpus are given in the appendix. The texts are arranged in three levels, high, middle and low, according to the audience addressed by the author - scholarly, student and general/popular.

The book is written for students who may have no previous knowledge of linguistics and little familiarity with traditional grammar.

Publisher description: This book presents a new and comprehensive descriptive grammar of English, written by the principal authors in collaboration with an international research team of a dozen linguists in five countries.

This grammar for the 21st century combines clear grammatical principles with non-technical explanations of all terms and concepts used.