An A-Z of English Grammar and Usage

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In An A-l of English Grammar and Usage, Geoffrey Leech provides teachers and learners of English with a unique reference grammar.
Grammar is presented alphabetically in a dictionary-like format. It is thus made truly accessible, even to people unfamiliar with grammatical terminology.
Over 600 entries are included. These are of three kinds:
- common words which have a grammatical function, e.g. more, the, what, do, by, to, unless, can.
- terms used in talking about grammar, meaning and usage, e.g. indirect object, pronoun, tag question.
- language areas not normally found in a grammar, such as greetings, introductions, punctuation, letter writing.
Throughout, entries are systematically cross-referenced. For instance, the entry ioxthe contains an explanation of the uses of the, together with cross-references to a/an and articles.
Explanations are expressed simply and clearly. They are illustrated by many examples and entertaining drawings, and by tables, boxes and... Tovább

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In An A-l of English Grammar and Usage, Geoffrey Leech provides teachers and learners of English with a unique reference grammar.
Grammar is presented alphabetically in a dictionary-like format. It is thus made truly accessible, even to people unfamiliar with grammatical terminology.
Over 600 entries are included. These are of three kinds:
- common words which have a grammatical function, e.g. more, the, what, do, by, to, unless, can.
- terms used in talking about grammar, meaning and usage, e.g. indirect object, pronoun, tag question.
- language areas not normally found in a grammar, such as greetings, introductions, punctuation, letter writing.
Throughout, entries are systematically cross-referenced. For instance, the entry ioxthe contains an explanation of the uses of the, together with cross-references to a/an and articles.
Explanations are expressed simply and clearly. They are illustrated by many examples and entertaining drawings, and by tables, boxes and diagrams.
Entries include notes on style, intonation, and British and American usage whenever appropriate.
Author:
Geoffrey Leech is Professor of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University. He is author and co-author of many works, and is co-director of a project at the University of Lancaster on the computer analysis of modem English. His publications included Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (with Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum and Jan Svartvik) and 4 Communicative Grammar of English (with Jan Svartvik).
Associate Authors:
Geoffrey Leech wrote An A-l of English Grammar and Usage in collaboration with Roz Ivanic and Benita Cruickshank. Roz Ivanic was a teacher of writing and study skills in Further and Adult Education for twelve years, and is now a lecturer in Linguistics at Lancaster University. Benita Cruickshank has worked as a teacher/ teacher trainer of EFL in South America, Hong Kong, Canada, Australia, Ireland and London. Vissza