Biber D., Conrad S., Leech G. Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English

Pearson Education Limited, 2002 - 2003. — 487 с.Based on the insights and discoveries of the ground-breaking Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English, this new book brings fresh perspective to the study of English grammar.
The Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a pedagogical coursebook for advanced students at university or on teacher-training courses, and an invaluable reference grammar. It combines a comprehensive examination of grammatical structure with information about the how, when, and why of the English as it is really used. The Longman Student Grammar:
examines patterns of use in news, fiction, academic, and spoken English
takes grammar and vocabulary together and looks at how they interact
is based on an 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