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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-73175-1 - English Grammar Today With CD-ROM An A-Z of Spoken and Written Grammar Ronald Carter, Michael McCarthy, Geraldine Mark and Anne O’Keeffe Frontmatter More information

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Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Tokyo, Mexico City Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521149877 © Cambridge University Press 2011 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2011 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library ISBN 978-0-521-73175-1 Paperback and CD-ROM ISBN 978-0-521-14987-7 Paperback with CD-ROM and Workbook Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

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Contents Thanks and acknowledgements Introduction

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A–Z 7 Table of irregular verbs 611 Glossary

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Thanks and acknowledgements This book has been compiled by four authors in different locations over the course of four years. During this time each one of us has benefited greatly from contact with many friends and colleagues who have directly and indirectly influenced our thinking about grammar, its organisation and its teaching. We have benefited from many sources of advice and guidance, always given freely and in the spirit of collaboration, on a range of matters that have affected the design, wording and presentation of this book and its companion workbook volume. Some names deserve a special expression of our gratitude. First and foremost we thank the editorial teams at Cambridge University Press. In particular we thank Alison Sharpe for commissioning the English Grammar Today project and for being a source of always perceptive, reliable advice through the earliest stages of the project. In the latter stages we have enjoyed similar advice and guidance from Robert Vernon and Matthew Duffy. In the day to day hurly burly of text construction and deconstruction we owe much to three colleagues at the Press who patiently and wisely guided us through innumerable stages of writing and re-writing: Tom Allen, Lynn Dunlop and Therese Tobin. All three got up close and personal to the manuscripts of this book and the English Grammar Today Workbook and provided invaluable critique, advice and insight. We owe an especial debt to Therese Tobin who has remained a close working colleague and friend over many years and who has been an unfailing source of ideas and support, at times during very difficult personal circumstances. It has been a privilege for us to work with her. Cambridge has given us outstanding and unfailing support from the outset. First and foremost, thanks must go to Hanri Pieterse, Managing Director of Cambridge Learning at the Press from 2006, whose support for this project and its architecture has been instrumental in many ways. We are also much indebted to Ron Ragsdale, Paul Heacock and Melissa Good for the many day-to-day instances of their support and friendship. Cambridge also supplied us with corpora and expert computational support from Andrew Harley, Ann Fiddes and Dominic Glennon, to all of whom we say thank you. Jo Botrill and his team at Out of House Publishing have provided prompt, efficient and meticulous support at the many stages of proofing and manuscript production. Both Out of House and Newgen, as well as illustrators Nigel Dobbyn, Laura Martinez and Paul Moran and Alek Sotirovski, have helped with the design of English Grammar Today and Workbook and we also thank Lila Purswani and Daniel Perrett for their work on the CD-ROM. We also thank Jeanette Alfoldi and her team at the Press who have overseen the book through its final stages of production. Development of this publication has made use of the Cambridge International Corpus (CIC). The CIC is a computer database of contemporary spoken and written English, which currently stands at over one billion words. It includes British English, American English and other varieties of English. It also includes the Cambridge Learner v

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Corpus, developed in collaboration with the University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations. Cambridge University Press has built up the CIC to provide evidence about language use that helps to produce better language teaching materials. Among the university and professional colleagues all the authors have shared over the years, many figures stand out as having profoundly influenced us. One deserves a special mention: John Sinclair, whose untimely death coincided with the earliest phases of this project, was, and remains a significant inspiration to us all, and to whose memory this book is dedicated. Other British-based colleagues and friends who have supported us and given us ideas and inspiration over the years, who have provided through innumerable conversations a forum for refinement of theory and practice, and who have created platforms in corpus-informed grammar and discourse analysis that have enabled this project in so many ways include: Svenja Adolphs, Dave Allan, Fiona Barker, Michael Baynham, Bethan Benwell, Paula Buttery, Martin Bygate, Andrew Caines, Lynne Cameron, Kathy Conklin, Joanna Channell, Sarah Cole, Guy Cook, Justine Coupland, David Crystal, Joan Cutting, Zoltan Dörnyei, David Evans, Jane Evison, Bryan Fletcher, Amorey Gethin, Sarah Grandage, Peter Grundy, Julia Harrison, John Hawkins, Martin Hewings, Ann Hewings, Michael Hoey, Susan Hunston, Rebecca Hughes, Howard Jackson, Martha Jones, Almut Koester, Dawn Knight, Geoffrey Leech, Michael Lewis, Jeanne McCarten, Tony McEnery, Rosamund Moon, Louise Mullany, Felicity O’Dell, David Oakey, Kieran O’Halloran, Antoinette Renouf, John Richmond, Mario Rinvolucri, Paul Roberts, Paul Seedhouse, Norbert Schmitt, Mike Scott, Alison Sealey, Paul Simpson, Roger Smith, Peter Stockwell, Michael Swan, Joan Swann, Paul Thompson, Ivor Timmis, Brian Tomlinson, Steve Walsh, David Willis, Jane Willis, Alison Wray and Martin Wynne. From universities and other institutions overseas, inspiration, ideas and friendly support came to us from: Jens Allwood, Carolina Amador Moreno, Gabriela Appel, Guy Aston, Michael Barlow, Douglas Biber, James Binchy, Geraldine Brosnan, Anne Burns, Dermot Campbell, Christopher Candlin, Angela Chambers, Marianne Celce-Murcia, Winnie Cheng, Brian Clancy, Sylvia de Cock, Susan Conrad, Tania Fahey Palma, Fiona Farr, Tony Fitzpatrick, Loretta Fung, Sylviane Granger, Carmen Gregori Signes, Michael Handford, Michael Halliday, Kieran Harrington, Ruquiya Hasan, Margaret Healy, Kent Hill, Jean Hudson, San San Hnin Tun, Paul Hopper, Ken Hyland, Yoshihiko Ikegami, Karen Johnson, Celeste Kinginger, James Lantolf, Diane Larsen-Freeman, Xiaofei Lu, Barbara Maleira Orfano, Anna Mauranen, John McDonagh, Nigel McQuitty, Justin McNamara, Marty Meinardi, Freda Mishan, Tom Morton, Bróna Murphy, David Nunan, Aisling O’Boyle, Eugene O’Brien, María Palma Fahey, Luke Prodromou, Nikoleta Rapti, Randi Reppen, Elaine Riordan, Ute Römer, Chris Rühlemann, Antonia Sánchez Macarro, Helen Sandiford, Elana Shohamy, Howard Siegelman, Rita Simpson, Anoma Siriwardena, Diana Slade, Carol Spöttl, Jeff Stranks, Susan Strauss, Merrill Swain, John Swales, Gerry Sweeney, Hongyin Tao, Scott Thornbury, Steven Thorne, Elena Tognini-Bonelli, Amy Tsui, Koen Van Landeghem, Elaine Vaughan, Mary Vaughn, Shih-Ping Wang, Martin Warren, Linda Waugh, Fiona Wheeler, Geoff Williams and Xuelian Xu.

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Others too many to mention have inspired us with conference papers and published work, and to all of them we owe a debt of gratitude. Our domestic partners have, as always, shown great support and patience during the many hours this project has chained us to our desks. Whatever shortcomings remain in English Grammar Today are entirely our responsibility. Ronald Carter, Michael McCarthy, Geraldine Mark, Anne O’Keeffe. Nottingham, Cambridge, Cheltenham and Limerick, 2010.

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