Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (Properly Cut and Bookmarked)

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Cover Foreword Abbreviations and symbols Preface Contents summary Contents in detail Symbols and notational conventions SECTION A Introductory 1 Introduction: a corpus-based approach to English grammar SECTION B Basic grammar: description and distribution 2 Word and phrase grammar 3 Clause grammar SECTION C Key word classes and their phrases 4 Nouns, pronouns, and the simple noun phrase 5 Verbs 6 Variation in the verb phrase: tense, aspect, voice, and modality 7 Adjectives and adverbs SECTION D More complex structures 8 Complex noun phrases 9 The form and function of complement clauses 10 Adverbials SECTION E Grammar in a wider perspective 11 Word order and related syntactic choices 12 The grammatical marking of stance 13 Lexical expressions in speech and writing 14 The grammar of conversation APPENDIX Contractions Endnotes Bibliography Lexical index Conceptual index Back Cover