Customer Reviews
The nitty-gritty of English usage - By: Sally Douglas, 01 Aug 2008 
An invaluable reference book if you want to get right down to the real nitty-gritty of grammatical usage. Detailed & extensive, descriptive rather than prescriptive, & corpus-based, this is a grammar for the C21st.
Five star approach to real grammar - By: Mr. C. Napier-Kristiansson, 17 Jul 2008 This book really is a gem given its size & the amount of grammar it covers. It is invaluable for answering all of the difficult questions TESOL teachers may face, e.g. phrasal verbs, modality & compound nouns etc. It also explains why written & spoken grammars are so different, & should be treated as so. All of the examples used are from a corpus of real language. I have used it bothin my undergraduate & now post-graduate work. It is simply the best.
