How long does it take to read A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language?
Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik
A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik takes about 32 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 32 hours 37 minutes
A long haul
First published 1985. 1,779 pages, about 489,225 words.
66 days (about 10 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 54 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 32 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 20 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the time when we started collaborating as a team in the 1960s, we envisaged not a grammar but a series of grammars. In 1972, there appeared the first volume in this series, A Grammar of Contemporary English (GCE). This was followed soon afterwards by two shorter works, A Communicative Grammar of English (CGE) and A University Grammar of English (UGE), published in the United States with the title A Concise Grammar of Contemporary English. With A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, we attempt something much more ambitious: a culmination of our joint work, which results in a grammar that is considerably larger and richer than GCE and hence superordinate to it. Yet, as with our other volumes since GCE, it is also a grammar that incorporates our own further research on grammatical structure as well as the research of scholars worldwide who have contributed to the description of English and to developments in linguistic theory. - Preface.
Subjects: Grammatik, Engels, Grammaire, Anglais (langue), Grammar, Englisch
