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For serious language learners, students, businesspeople. Uses up to date conversations and vocabulary in each lesson and teaches grammar, reading, writing and culture along with conversational ...

Written by a team led by a world authority in English grammar, English Grammar for Today has established itself as a rich educational experience for both native- and non-native-speaking students. ...

Does grammar bother you? Does it first inspire boredom, then fear? Since the virtual removal of formal grammar teaching from our schools' standard curriculum forty years ago, such negative responses ...

A thorough and precise account of all the major areas of English grammar. For practical reasons Rodney Huddleston concentrates on Standard English and only selected aspects of its regional variation. ...

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Auxiliation describes the process by which auxiliary verbs - such as do, may, must, will, and have - develop from lexical verbs meaning exist, possess, hold, etc. The sequence of verb followed ...

Conditionals has at its centre an extended essay on this problematic and much-debated subject in the philosophy of language and logic by the widely respected Oxford philosopher Michael Woods. It has ...

A state-of-the-art CD-ROM, packaged along with the latest edition of the best-selling Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary. The unique CD-ROM offers a rapid-access Chinese-English dictionary, searchable ...