A corpus-based university grammar with a Swedish perspective, written in English. The book is mainly aimed at first-term students of English at Swedish universities. What else characterises this book? Its layout aims at clarity, particularly in the way it points out problem areas and uses symbols to illustrate different aspects of language usage; it gives an introduction to the study of grammar and the building blocks of language; it provides extensive information about language variation, based on corpus research; it comprises a large number of exercises of various kinds, traditional as well as non-traditional ones; it comes with a website including corpus exercises and short audio lectures; it provides information about differences between English and several other languages used by our immigrants and exchange students; all examples are authentic, taken from, for instance, language corpora, the Internet, lyrics and students' essays; a comprehensive appendix includes, among other things, useful expressions and an English-Swedish/Swedish-English glossary.