Leech

A communicative Grammar of English, Leech G., Svartvik J., 1975.

   A Communicative Grammar of English is a new kind of grammar. In writing it, we have assumed that studying grammar, for the overseas student, makes most sense if one starts with the question ‘How can I use grammar to communicate?’. Thus the main part of the book is devoted to the uses of grammar, rather than to grammatical structure.
The book is intended primarily for the fairly advanced student, for example the first-year university student. If you are such a student you will have studied English grammar in one form or another already, but here we offer you a hew perspective on the subject, which relates grammatical structure systematically to meanings, uses and situations. In this way we hope you will improve and extend the range of your communicative skill in the language. The book also supplies the essential information about grammatical forms and structures which you will need, and can therefore be used as a general reference book or sourcebook on English grammar.

A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, Quirk R., Greenbaum S., Leech G., Svartvik J., 1985.

   With A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, we attempt i something much more ambitious: a culmination of our joint work, which results in a grammar that is considerably larger and richer than GCE and hence superordinate to it. Yet, as with our other volumes since GCE, it is also a grammar that incorporates our own further research on grammatical structure as well as the research of scholars world-wide who have contributed to the description of English and to developments in linguistic theory.

English Grammar for Today, A new introduction, Leech G., Deuchar M., Hoogenraad R., 1982.

   This is an introductory course in English grammar for use in English-medium schools, colleges and universities. Lamentably , there is at present no recognised place for English grammar in the British educational curriculum. In fact it is still possible for a student to end up with a degree in English at a British university without having cause to know the first thing about English grammar, or the grammar of any other language. But if we are right in supposing that the time is right for a revival of the subject in schools, there will be a growing need for introductory courses at various levels. Thus this book has a multiple purpose. It is primarily designed as a course book for students at the upper secondary level (sixth forms) and the tertiary level (colleges, polytechnics, universities), but it is also adapted to the needs of teachers interested in exploring a new approach to grammar, or of any person keen to catch up with a subject so wretchedly neglected by our educational system.

Grammar of Spoken and Written English, Biber D., Johansson S., Leech G., Conrad S., Finegan E., 1999.   

The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a revolutionary, corpus-based reference grammar of English, based on a groundbreaking research project to analyze the ways in which English grammar is really used. The book looks at four text types conversation, fiction, news reportage, and academic prose and reports statistical findings as well as examining the reasons that condition a particular grammatical choice.

Longman English, student grammar of spoken and written, Biber B., Conrad S., Leech G., 2002.

*Examines patterns of use in the news, fiction and academic English *Takes grammar and vocabulary together and looks at how they interact *Is based on the analysis of 40-million words of British and American, written and spoken corpus text *Uses over 3000 examples of real, corpus English to illustrate the points *Uses frequency tables and graphs to make the new findings of this grammar clear