McCarthy's Field Guide to Grammar

You ain''t gonna like it: bad grammar''s not so bad. - The Times

Remember all those grammar rules from school? No? Most of us don''t. Mike McCarthy, renowned corpus linguist and co-author of the 900-page Cambridge Grammar of English answers the awkward questions that regularly bother us about English grammar. In this helpful A-Z field guide, McCarthy tells us what the conventional rules are as well...