A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language is a descriptive grammar of English written by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan...
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The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CamGEL) is a descriptive grammar of the English language. Its primary authors are Rodney Huddleston and...
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English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts...
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is largely ignored in the bibliographies of later prominent grammars, including A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language and CGEL. Matthews illustrates...
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A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Harlow: Longman. pp. 14, 18. ISBN 978-0582517349. Huddleston, Rodney; Pullum, Geoffrey (2002). The Cambridge...
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has the same pronunciation variants as for plural nouns in the common case." A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, under the heading "The forms...
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While the English language lacks distinct inflections for mood, an English subjunctive is recognized in most grammars. Definition and scope of the concept...
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The history of English grammars begins late in the sixteenth century with the Pamphlet for Grammar by William Bullokar. In the early works, the structure...
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Corpus linguistics (redirect from History of corpus linguistics)
with The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language in 1969) and reference grammars, with A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, published...
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Grammatical case (redirect from Case (grammar))
Geoffrey; Svartvik, Jan (1985). A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Harlow: Longman. p. 328. ISBN 978-0-582-51734-9. [the -s ending is] more appropriately...
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Verbless clause (section History of the concept)
of them children or Break over, they returned to work. Neither A comprehensive grammar of the English language: 1068 norThe Cambridge grammar of the...
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object of a preposition, as well as other uses. For instance, one standard work on English grammar, A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, uses...
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description of modern English, a successor to A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (ComGEL) published in 1985 and a predecessor of the Cambridge...
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will (with would) are, or are among, the "central modal auxiliaries" (A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, 1985), "secondary or modal auxiliaries"...
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Bas.Oxford Modern English Grammar. Oxford UP, 2011. p. 76-77. Quirk, Randolph, et al. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Longman, 1985. pp...
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these, some grammars (such as Oxford Modern English Grammar and A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language) also recognize the function of predeterminative...
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Contemporary English, by Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik" (Longman 1972), and in the second edition, to "the monumental A Comprehensive Grammar of the English...
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Gerund (redirect from English gerund)
gerunds, a distinction that is not observed in such modern grammars as A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language and The Cambridge Grammar of the English...
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A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (MEG) is a seven-volume reference grammar of Modern English, largely written by Otto Jespersen. The...
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as amount (many, a few), proximity (this, those), or possession (my, the government's). English grammar requires that, in most cases, a singular, countable...
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Grammar of the English Language (Longman, 1985). Quirk, Raymond, Sidney Greembaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik, 1985, A Comprehensive Grammar of Contemporary...
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the most common words in English examine texts written in English. Perhaps the most comprehensive such analysis is one that was conducted against the...
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complement clause, which has a head VP, with the head verb swim. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (1985) says of "verbs in auxiliary function"...
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Randolph (2010). A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Pearson. ISBN 978-81-317-3343-1. "The Earliest Arithmetics in English". gutenberg.readingroo...
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In the traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle...
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Word-formation. In A comprehensive grammar of the English language (pp. 1517–1585). Harlow: Longman. Simpson, John (Ed.). (1989). Oxford English dictionary (2nd...
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(1985). A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Longman. pp. 404, 593. "Double comparatives | Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: English in North...
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English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a global lingua franca. The namesake of the language...
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Object pronoun (redirect from Objective (grammar))
Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik, A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (London: Longman, 1985), p. 337....
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Singular they (redirect from Gender-neutral third person singular pronoun in English)
American English, with Garner's Modern English Usage stating British English and A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language stating American English. Garner's...
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