A Comprehensive grammar of the English language 1985
By Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey N. Leech, Jan Svartvik
- Grammatik, Engels, Grammaire, Anglais (langue)
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).
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Cool, grave, classical in form and earnest.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 1779
- Publisher
- Longman
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780582517349
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