British or American English? : a handbook of word and grammar patterns

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Parts of Speech: 1. Verbs 2. Determiners 3. Nouns 4. Pronouns 5. Adjectives 6. Adverbs 7. Qualifiers 8. Prepositions 9. Conjunctions 10. Interjections Part II. Syntactic Constructions: 11. Complementation 12. Mandative constructions 13. Expanded predicates 14. Concord 15. Propredicates 16. Tag questions 17. Miscellaneous Bibliography of British book citation sources Bibliography of studies, dictionaries and corpora Index of words.

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