An A-Z of English Grammar and Usage

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In An A-Z 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 formát. 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 for the 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. #... Tovább

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In An A-Z 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 formát. 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 for the 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 modern English. His publications include A Comprehensive Grammar ofthe 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-Z 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 Aduit 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