This is a unique resource and reference book, suitable for general readers as well as for teachers and students. It gives detailed and accessible information on familiar grammar terms such as ‘noun’ ‘verb’ subject’ and ‘predicate’; and on more obscure but equally important ones such as ‘absolute contruction’, ‘aspect’ ‘modality’ and ‘subjunctive’. In all, it deals with 250 terms drawn from traditional grammar, structuralist grammar, systemicfunctional grammar, and from the most recent work in universal grammar.

    What sets work apart from other grammar dictionaries are the examples on texts that range from the works of Shakespeare, Jane Austen, James Joyce, Mary Shelly, Mark Twain and Emily Dickinson, to current works by such authors as Jean Aitchison, Jared Diamond, Melina Marchetta, Richard Leakey, Patricia Shaw and Richard Dawkins.

- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- List of entries
- Dictionary A-Z
- Bibliography
- Index