Based on the insight sand discoveries of the ground-breaking Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English, this book brings fresh perspectives to the study of English grammar.

The Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a pedagogical course book for advanced students at university or on teacher-training courses, and an invaluable reference grammar. It combines a comprehensive examination of grammatical structure with information about the 'how', 'when' and 'why' of English as it is really used.

• Examines patterns of use in the news, fiction and academic English
• Takes grammar and vocabulary together and looks at how they interact
• Is based on the analysis of 40-million words of British and American, written and spoken corpus text
• Uses over 3000 examples of real, corpus English to illustrate the points
• Uses frequency tables and graphs to make the new findings of this grammar clear