Ebook: A Comprehensive Descriptive Grammar of English

This Grammar is written to be used either as a university textbook of English grammar or as a reference grammar. Apart from introducing the full apparatus of terms and concepts used in descriptive linguistics, it offers a detailed description of the structure of English syntax, semantics and inflectional morphology. In doing so it devotes special attention to the English systems of tense, aspect and modality. These are explained in much more detail than is usual in other English grammars that areavailable todat.