Invaluable for students on university and teacher-training courses, checks your knowledge of how English is actually used in speech and writing, shows how grammar differs in different contexts of registers, provides practice with relationships between grammar and vocabulary, all examples taken from naturally occurring English texts and conversations, comparisons between British English and American English, spoken and written extracts throughout full answer key. | îfttim iiiíliliniwiraáttil lî èi of SPOKEN WRITTEN Longman Longman Student O iwiww of SPOKEN and WRITTEN ENGLISH VUorLbook Susan Conrad Douglas Biber Geoffrey Leech Pearson Education Limited Edinburgh Gate Harlow Essex CM20 2JE England and Associated Companies throughout the World. Visit our website http dictionaries Pearson Education Limited 2002 The rights of Susan Conrad Douglas Biber and Geoffrey Leech to be identified as authors of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved no part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the Publishers. First published 2002 Third Impression 2003 Words that the editors have reason to believe constitute trademarks have been described as such. However neither the presence nor the absence of such a description should be regarded as affecting the legal status of any trademark. ISBN 0 582 539420 Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Designed by Trait Design Tiptree Essex. Set in MetaPlus by Trait Design Tiptree Essex. Printed in Great Britain by Ashford Colour Press Ltd Gosport .
