Dave Willis

The Collins COBUILD English Course is a new departure in English language teaching materials. It is a lively and varied course, using plenty of natural English examples. And it is founded on the very latest evidence of English structure from the COBUILD files.The authors set themselves a very...

Introduction The COBUILD approach to grammar is simple and direct. We study a large collection of English texts, and find out how people are actually using the language. We pick the most important points and we show how the words and phrases are used by quoting actual examples from our text...

Introduction The coBuiLD approach to grammar is simple and direct. We study a large collection of English texts, and find out how people are actually using the language. We pick the most important points and we show how the words and phrases are used by quoting actual examples from our text...