English Grammar (COBUILD) [Paperback]

University of Alabama (Author), Steve Bullon (Author), Ramesh Khrishmurthy (Author), Elizabeth Manning (Author), John Todd (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1990 | ISBN-10: 000370257X | ISBN-13: 978-0003702576

A comprehensive reference grammar specially developed for advanced students and teachers of English. Using information from the COBUILD database, the editors have selected what they consider to be the most important examples of spoken and written modern English.

Product Details

• Paperback: 486 pages
• Publisher: Thomson Learning (1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 000370257X
• ISBN-13: 978-0003702576
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,027,231 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A new kind of pedagogic grammar, December 10, 1999

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This review is from: English Grammar (COBUILD) (Paperback)

The editors, working within the framework of the COBUILD project, have put together an excellent study aid for advanced learners of English and for teachers of English as a foreign language. The departure point for this book was the 100 million word electronic corpus of texts of the COBUILD project. These texts, representative of the language, were analyzed for frequency of words and for their patterning. The grammar is the second main work which resulted from this initiative by Birmingham University and Collins, the other being a Dictionary. All the examples in the book are taken from this enormous database, and there are 'real' rather than made up to illustrate a point. The other useful feature is boxes of words that behave like the point under discussion. This allows users to 'do things' with the langauge rather than just understand it.