As a concise pedagogical reference grammar, A Descriptive Grammar of English is designed to highlight the essential rules and principles of contemporary English grammar, and clearly illustrate them through a multitude of carefully selected, unambiguous and pertinent examples of modern style and usage. In this respect it fills a gap on the bookshelf between, on the one side the heavyweight university grammars of English, with their painstaking attention to detail, and on the other side the practice grammars of English which are extensively used in the world of TESOL.

Originally published in paperback 2020 (revision 1.0.)

Verbs --The noun phrase -- Other parts of speech -- Sentences and clauses.