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This book has been written primarily for undergraduate and graduate students of English as a foreign or second language. It is also addressed to tutors and others interested in applying a broadly functional approach to language teaching in higher education. It assumes an intermediate standard of knowledge and practical handling of the language and, from this point of departure, seeks to fulfill the following aims:

- to further students knowledge of English through exploration and analysis;
- to help students acquire a global vision of English, rather than concentrate on unrelated areas;
- to see a grammar as providing a means of understanding the relation of form to meaning, and meaning to function, in context;
- to provide a basic terminology which, within this framework, will enable students to make these relationships explicit.