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Presenting the linguistic basis for courses and projects on translation, contrastive linguistics, stylistics, reading and discourse studies, this book illustrates grammatical usage through authentic texts from a range of sources, both spoken and written. This new edition has been thoroughly rewritten and redesigned to include many new texts and examples of language in use. Key features include: - chapters divided into modules of class-length materials - a wide variety of authentic texts and transcriptions to illustrate points of grammar and to contextualise structure - clear chapter and module summaries enabling efficient class preparation and student revision - exercises and topics for individual study - answer key for analytical exercises - comprehensive index - select biography - suggestions for further reading - a companion website. This up-to-date descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and postgraduate students of English, and is particularly suited for those whose native language is not English.

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'Routledge are to be congratulated for publishing this greatly revised edition of Angela Downing and Philip Locke's Grammar , now entitled English Grammar: A University Course . In my Preface I welcomed enthusiastically the first edition as an innovative course in Systemic Functional Grammar. Now what we have is a greatly revised work with the advantage of insights from recent research in corpus linguistics, studies in sociolinguistic interaction and discourse, genre analysis and cognitive linguistics. As such, this new and more comprehensive Grammar will sit well with a range of contemporary English language courses and programs, from those more functionally text-based to those exploring the interface between lexico-grammar and interaction. It will, I am confident, continue to be of the utmost value to researchers and practitioners.' - Christopher N. Candlin, Senior Research Professor, Linguistics, Macquarie University

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Angela Downing is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English Language and Linguistics (English Philology I) at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid. The late Philip Locke taught at the Institute of Modern Languages and Translation at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid.

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