Publisher's Synopsis
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, many of them from literary sources.;Features include: chapters divided into modules of class-length material; literary and other authentic texts and transcriptions contextualize structure; clear chapter and module summaries enabling efficient teacher preparation and student revision; tasks for individual study at the end of each chapter; answer key to tasks.
