A systematic account of grammatical forms and the way they are used in standard British English today.

Easily navigable.Excellent examples and sufficiently succinct without being simplistic.Perfect for teaching and writing purposes.Covers tricky areas like compound nouns in a way that suddenly makes English seem much more 'teachable' than ever before.

• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Key to symbols
• Sentence and text
• Verb forms
• Infinitive, gerund and participles
• The noun phrase
• Adjectives, adverbs and prepositions
• Main clauses and sub clauses
• Word forms
• Appendix
• American English
• Glossary
• Index

• Provides a systematic account of grammatical forms and the way they are used in standard British English today.
• The emphasis is on meanings and how they govern the choice of grammatical pattern.
• Summaries at the start of each chapter review the topic as a whole and show users where to find the particular information they need.
• Over fifty texts and conversations, most of them from authentic sources, show patterns in context.
• There are many authentic single-sentence examples.
• Sensible advice is given on the avoidance of non-standard usage.
• A whole chapter is devoted to differences between American and British grammar.
• Technical terms are used sparingly, and defined in a glossary.