A shortened version of "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language" especially aimed at students of grammar in colleges and universities drawing on linguistic research and including coverage of the differences between written and spoken English and between British and American English. semantics of the verb phrase; nouns and determiners; pronouns; adjectives and adverbs; the semantics and grammar of adverbials; prepositions and prepositional phrases; the simple sentence; sentence types and discourse functions; pro-forms and ellipsis; co-ordination; the complex sentence; syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses; complementation of verbs and adjectives; the noun phrase; theme processing; from sentences to text.