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'an indispensable reference work and resource for all those concerned with English language description, analysis and use.'
Professor David Nunan, University of Hong Kong

'At last! I'm delighted to see a grammar that takes spoken English seriously.'
Michael Lewis, author of The Lexical Approach

'goes significantly beyond the brief of most grammars of this kind'
Dr Franz Andres Morrissey, University of Bern

'an excellent reference point'
Professor Marilyn Lewis, University of Auckland

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English speakers have no difficulty in understanding sentences such as:

His cousin in London, her boyfriend, his parents bought him a Ford Escort for his birthday

even though they are not found in writing.

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Cambridge Grammar of English