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A Grammar of contemporary English
by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey N. Leech, Jan Svartvik
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There have been very few attempts at so comprehensive a coverage as is offered in the present work. Fewer still in terms of synchronic description. And none at all so comprehensive or in such depth has been produced within an English-speaking country. Moreover, our Grammar aims at this comprehensiveness and depth in treating English irrespective of frontiers: our field is no less than the grammar of educated English current in the second half of the twentieth century in the world's major English-speaking communities. - Preface.
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A Grammar of contemporary English
First published in 1972
Subjects
Grammar, English language, Ingles (Gramatica), Anglais (Langue), GrammaireWork Description
There have been very few attempts at so comprehensive a coverage as is offered in the present work. Fewer still in terms of synchronic description. And none at all so comprehensive or in such depth has been produced within an English-speaking country. Moreover, our Grammar aims at this comprehensiveness and depth in treating English irrespective of frontiers: our field is no less than the grammar of educated English current in the second half of the twentieth century in the world's major English-speaking communities. - Preface.
A Grammar of contemporary English
This edition was published in 1972 by Longman in [London].
Table of Contents
| Symbols and technical conventions | ||
| The English language | ||
| The sentence : a preliminary view | ||
| The verb phrase | ||
| Nouns, pronouns, and the basic noun phrase | ||
| Adjectives and adverbs | ||
| Prepositions and prepositional phrases | ||
| The simple sentence | ||
| Adjuncts, disjuncts, conjuncts | ||
| Coordination and apposition | ||
| Sentence connection | ||
| The complex sentence | ||
| The verb and its complementation | ||
| The complex noun phrase | ||
| Focus, theme, and emphasis | ||
| Appendixes. | ||
| Word-formation | ||
| Stress, rhythm, and intonation | ||
| Punctuation |
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. [1083]-1091.
Includes index.
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- Created April 1, 2008
- 14 revisions
| March 20, 2019 | Edited by Bryan Tyson | Added new cover |
| March 20, 2019 | Edited by Bryan Tyson | Edited without comment. |
| September 21, 2017 | Edited by Jeysson Pérez G | Added new cover |
| September 21, 2017 | Edited by Jeysson Pérez G | Update covers |
| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from Scriblio MARC record. |