A_Grammar_of_Contemporary_English

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RANDOLPH QUIRK


A GRAMMAR OF


SIDNEY GREENBAUM


CONTEMPORARY


GEOFFREY LEECH


ENGLISH


JAN SVARTVIK

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PREFACE




The first attempts at producing a grammar of English were made when there were
less than ten million speakers of English in the world, almost all of them living within