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Top 10 English Grammar Books • Correct English-Second Course With Preliminary Tests

• Comprehensive English Grammar If you use English, and you have ever had a question on grammar that wasn't answered to your satisfaction, you need to get this book.

• Cambridge Grammar of English Paperback with CD ROM The Cambridge Grammar of English is a major new reference grammar from the world's leading grammar publisher. Using ground breaking language research, it offers clear explanations of spoken and written English based on real everyday usage. A clear two-part structure makes the book particularly user-friendly.

• High School English Grammar & Composition Wren and Martin • Longman's grammar of spoken an written english.

The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a revolutionary, corpus-based reference grammar of English, based on a groundbreaking research project to analyze the ways in which English grammar is really used. The book looks at four text types ¿ conversation, fiction, news reportage, and academic prose ¿ and reports statistical findings as well as examining the reasons that condition a particular grammatical choice.

• English Syntax and Argumentation", by Bas Aarts, published in 2001

This textbook on syntax gives students a thorough grounding in the basics of sentence structure, and at the same time acquaints them with the essentials of syntactic argumentation. This new edition is completely revised, with the chapter on X-bar syntax now split in two to give greater prominence to clauses. It also contains many new exercises, which are now graded in terms of level of difficulty. Each chapter has a section on suggested further reading material, and there is a bibliography and list of recommended reference works.

• A University Grammar of English by Quirk and Greenbaum I found a lot good information in this book. I want to tell you that it is a very good book about how the English is spoken and not how is it. One thing is how the English is and other is how the English is spoken in all the social levels. you can refresh you knowledge in the grammar structures and how really are used it.

• The Grammar Book: An ESL/EFL Teacher's Course", by M. Celce-Murcia and D. Larsen-Freeman.

This is a pedagogical grammar. In this highly acclaimed revision, grammatical descriptions and teaching suggestions are organized into sections dealing with Form, Meaning, and Use. THE GRAMMAR BOOK, Second Edition helps teachers and future teachers grasp the linguistic system and details of English grammar, providing more information on how structures are used at the discourse level.

• A Grammar of Speech", by David Brazil This book provides an innovative analysis of English grammar in the spoken form. Hitherto, most grammars of English have relied heavily on the written language, and this excludes much normal spoken discourse, This work offers an alternative view of the structure of spoken English based on naturally-occurring language data. A Grammar of Speech has relevance for many areas related to linguistics, such as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and machine translation.

• An Introduction to Functional Grammar by M.A.K. Halliday Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar, now in its revised and improved Second Edition, is the best book you can read if you want to understand how English grammar is a resource for making meaning. Most formal grammar is just about syntax -- how words get put together grammatically, with no consideration of how people use language to communicate a meaning. This book has been the basis for many of the most successful applications of linguistics to education, language teaching, and studies of culture, communication, mass media, politics, etc. It's a book to read, use, and keep. ____________________________________________________________________________________