This new edition of a successful text has been thoroughly revised to make it even more accessible to those without any prior grammatical knowledge. There is greater discussion and exemplification of key terms, while essential topics are now fully introduced at the outset. There are also new sections, more diagrams and shaded boxes.
Again, the target audience is linguistics students.I would certainly not recommend this to any of my EFL/ESL students. However, it caters to the needs of its target audience(teritary student grammarians) very well. This book guided me through the mire of PCOs, PCs, co-ordinators, subordinators, mono-transitives and complex transitives, pseudo clefts and dislocutions kindly and masterfully. It is lucid, fluff-free and accessible. What more could you ask from a University grammar?