Title: Progressives, patterns. pedagogy
Description: "This book presents a large-scale corpus-driven study of progressives in 'real' English and 'school' English, combining an analysis of general linguistic interest with a pedagogically motivated one. A systematic comparative analysis of more than 10,000 progressive forms taken from the largest existing corpora of spoken British English and from a small corpus of EFL textbook texts highlights numerous differences between actual language use and textbook language concerning the distribution of progressives, their preferred contexts, favoured functions, and typical lexical-grammatical patterns."--Jacket.
Subjects: Discourse analysis, English language, German speakers, Study and teaching, Tense, Verb phrase, English language, great britain, English language, study and teaching, foreign speakers, English language, grammar, English language, discourse analysis
Places: Great Britain