How long does it take to read Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English?
Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad, Geoffrey Leech, Longman
Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English by Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad, Geoffrey Leech, Longman takes about 8 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 48 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2002. 480 pages, about 132,000 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
English grammar book that goes into great detail and specifics about everything grammatical. Covers both spoken and written English, with many corpus and graph examples to help explain concepts and uses. Technical but written simply, though some passages are complex.
Subjects: grammar, linguistics, sociolinguistics, Grammaire, Anglais (langue), Exercices
