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A Communicative Grammar of English by Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik is a highly reliable and one of the most referred guides on English Grammar. Summary of the Book A Communicative Grammar of English, third edition Pearson has all the updated explanations for the concepts in English Grammar. The book has an innovative, fresh approach in covering these topics. It is thoroughly revised and the book is redesigned in this edition, serving as an extensive resource to undergraduate students of English, teachers and the interested advanced learners. Balancing between the spoken English and written English grammar is emphasized, with clearer and simpler explanations than ever before. With more examples given for each concept, learning English grammar has been made more practical and easier to the readers. About the Authors Geoffrey Leech is a British specialist in linguistics and in English language. His areas of research and interest are English Grammar, Pragmatics, Semantics, Corpus Linguistics and Stylistics. He has authored and co-authored more than 30 books so far, including Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English, English Grammar: A glossary of terms, English Grammar for Today, English – One Tongue, Many Voices and A Glossary of English Grammar among many others. Jan Svartvik Jan Svartvik, a linguist and Professor of English at the Lund University has authored and co-authored several books on English grammar. Some of his books are A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, English – One Tongue, Many Voices and On Voice in the English Verb among many other.