tailieunhanh - A Comprehensive Grammar Of The English Language

This exercise looks at some common “American” words (words which are used in the . and Canada). You might find it useful if you have been learning “British” English (the English which is spoken in the United Kingdom and in other countries around the world). Generally, “American” words are understood by “British” English speakers (largely as a result of imported television programs and movies), but many North Americans are unfamiliar with some “British” English words. | A COMPREHENSIVE GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Randolph Quirk Sidney Greenbaum Geoffrey Leech Jan Svartvik Index by David Crystal Longman London and New York Longmnn Group Limited Langman House Burnt Mill Harlow Essex CM20 2JE England and Associated Companies throughout the world. Published in the United States of America by Longman Inc. New York Longman Group Limited 1985 All righ IS reserved no part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the Publishers. First published 1985 Standard edition ISBN 0 582 51734 6 De luxe edition ISBN 0 582 96502 0 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A comprehensive grammar of the English language. i. English language Grammar 1950- I. Quirk Randolph II. Crystal David PEI 112 ISBN 0-582-51734-6 Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data A comprehensive grammar of the English language. Bibliography p. Includes index. 1. English language Grammar 195- . I. Quirk Randolph. 1985 84-27848 ISBN 0-582-51734-6 Set in APS 4 Times and Univers. Typeset printed and bound in Great Britain by William Clowes Limited Becclesand London. Designed by Arthur Lockwood V Preface From the time when we started collaborating as a team in the 1960s we envisaged not a grammar but a series of grammars. In 1972 there appeared the first volume in this series A Grammar of Contemporary English GCE . This was followed soon afterwards by two shorter works A Communicative Grammar of English CGE and A University Grammar of English UGE published in the United States with the title A Concise Grammar of Contemporary English . These two were in part an abridgment of GCE but what is more significant is that they were deliberately different both from the parent book and from each other. This is particularly obvious in the case of CGE which looks at the whole grammar .