
This best-selling comprehensive descriptive grammar forms a complete course, ideal for all students studying English Language, whether on a course or for self-study. Broadly based on Hallidayan systemic-functional grammar but also drawing on cognitive linguistics and discourse...



This comprehensive reference and practice grammar is designed for advanced students of English as a foreign language. It takes language functions as its basis and explores these in terms of the language units that realize them. Form is related to meaning which in turn is related...

This best-selling comprehensive descriptive grammar forms a complete course.Divided into 12 self-contained chapters based around language functions, each chapter is divided into units of class-length material. Key features include: