The authors

Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language in the School of English Studies, University of Nottingham. He has published extensively in the fields of language education, applied linguistics and literary-linguistic studies. He is co-author of Exploring Spoken English and Exploring Grammar in Context , and co-editor of The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages for Cambridge ELT.

Michael McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics in the School of English Studies, University of Nottingham. He has also published extensively on corpora, vocabulary and discourse. He is the co-author of several of the English Vocabulary in Use titles, Exploring Spoken English and Exploring Grammar in Context as well as a number of applied linguistics titles for Cambridge ELT.


Michael McCarthy
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Ronald Carter

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Just

is six times more frequent in spoken language than in written. This is because people use it to soften what they say and make it less direct, for example

Could you just have a look at this? Can I just ask you something?

Find out more in the

Cambridge Grammar of English