Downing/Locke: English Grammar (Paperback)

Readership: undergraduate, postgraduate. This comprehensive descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and post-graduate students of English as a Foreign Language. It is also suitable as a background course for literature and discourse studies, since grammatical usage is illustrated with authentic texts.

Provides the linguistic basis for courses and projects on translation, contrastive linguistics, stylistics, reading and discourse studies. This work includes features such as: chapter and module summaries enabling efficient class preparation; student revision exercises and topics for individual study; answer key for analytical exercises; and more.