Author(s): Biber, Douglas

Learning Material & Coursework (ELT)

• Examines patterns of use in the news, fiction and academic English
• Takes grammar and vocabulary together and looks at how they interact
• Is based on the analysis of 40-million words of British and American, written and spoken corpus text
• Uses over 3000 examples of real, corpus English to illustrate the points
• Uses frequency tables and graphs to make the new findings of this grammar clear