How long does it take to read A Grammar of Contemporary English?
Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik
A Grammar of Contemporary English by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik takes about 20 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 20 hours 32 minutes
A long haul
First published 1972. 1,120 pages, about 308,000 words.
42 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 34 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 20 hours 32 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 12 hours 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
There have been very few attempts at so comprehensive a coverage as is offered in the present work. Fewer still in terms of synchronic description. And none at all so comprehensive or in such depth has been produced within an English-speaking country. Moreover, our Grammar aims at this comprehensiveness and depth in treating English irrespective of frontiers: our field is no less than the grammar of educated English current in the second half of the twentieth century in the world's major English-speaking communities. - Preface.
Subjects: Grammar, Ingles (Gramatica), Anglais (Langue), Grammaire
