... Locke’s A University Course in English Grammar, which broke new ground by offering to advanced studentsof English a comprehensive course, based on Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar. It went ... of the work, which still bears his name and has been retitled as English Grammar: A University Course. The new version of the grammar embodies three themesevident in Angela Downing’s research ... which even advanced foreign learners of English are often rather weak.Second, the account of English grammar offers benefits from the recognition that discourse is not a static product, but a...