THE LONGMAN GRAMMAR OF SPOKEN AND WRITTEN ENGLISH is an entirely new grammar of American and British English- from the language of academic textbooks. There are no made-up examples in this groundbreaking new grammar.

Key Features:

• Entirely corpus-based grammar of English

• Over 350 tables and graphs showing the frequency of constructions across different registers, from conversation to fiction to academic prose

• 6000 authentic examples from the Longman Corpus Network

• British English and American English grammar compared

• New and challenging findings

• Revealing the differences between spoken and written English