Michael swan is a writer specializing in english language teaching and reference materials. Michael swan s most popular book is practical english usage. Nov 24, 2005 explains what grammar really is, why languages have to have it, and how different languages exploit it. Oxford english grammar course basic and intermediate are revisions and expansions of the highly successful good grammar book and how english works.
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