The Longman Grammar of spoken and Written English is an entirely new grammar of American and British English from the language of conversation to the language of acdemic textbooks. There are no made-up examples in this groundbreaking new grammar. The authors began, not with preconceived notions of the grammar of English, but with a huge bank of language data, The Longman Corpus Network.

The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English takes its reader into new and uncharted terriory for a grammar, by suggesting the reasons why we choose a particular structure in a particular context.
- Entirely corus-based grammar of English
- Over 350 tables and graphs showing the frequency of constructions across diffent registers, from conversation to fiction to academic prose
- 6,000 authentic examples from the Longman Corpus Network
- British English and American English grammar compared
- New and challenging findings
- Reveals the defferences between spoken and written English.

Section A Introductory
Section B Basic grammar: Description and distribution
Section C Key word classes and their phrases
Section D More Complex Structures
Section E Grammar in a winder perspective