An Introduction to English Grammar

Author: Gerald Nelson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317863968
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
An Introduction to English grammar provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of English grammar, and can be used in the classroom, for self-study, or as a reference book. The book is organised in two parts – on grammar and its applications – and provides everything a beginning student needs to get to grips with the theory and practice of English usage, including sections on style, punctuation and spelling. This third edition has been fully revised and updated to include an expanded section on English in Use, usage notes highlighting common errors, updated exercises, a glossary and a companion website with further graded exercises.

A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

Author: Rodney Huddleston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009092731
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 421

Book Description
A new edition of a successful undergraduate textbook on contemporary international Standard English grammar, based on Huddleston and Pullum's earlier award-winning work, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002). The analyses defended there are outlined here more briefly, in an engagingly accessible and informal style. Errors of the older tradition of English grammar are noted and corrected, and the excesses of prescriptive usage manuals are firmly rebutted in specially highlighted notes that explain what older authorities have called 'incorrect' and show why those authorities are mistaken. Intended for students in colleges or universities who have little or no background in grammar or linguistics, this teaching resource contains numerous exercises and online resources suitable for any course on the structure of English in either linguistics or English departments. A thoroughly modern undergraduate textbook, rewritten in an easy-to-read conversational style with a minimum of technical and theoretical terminology.

English Grammar

Author: Peter Collins
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230216945
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This new edition of a successful text has been thoroughly revised to make it even more accessible to those without any prior grammatical knowledge. There is greater discussion and exemplification of key terms, while essential topics are now fully introduced at the outset. There are also new sections, more diagrams and shaded boxes.

Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews

Author: Robert Lowth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 490

Book Description

An Introduction to the Grammar of English

Author: Elly van Gelderen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027225869
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
This textbook introduces basic concepts of grammar in a format which should encourage readers to use linguistic arguments. It focuses on syntactic analysis and evidence. It also looks at sociolinguisic and historical reasons behind prescriptive rules.

Introduction to the Grammar of English

Author: Rodney Huddleston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521297042
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 516

Book Description
Written for students without knowledge of linguistics and unfamiliar with "traditional" grammar, this text concentrates on providing a much needed foundation in Standard English in preparation for more advanced work in theoretical linguistics.

American English Grammar

Author: Seth R. Katz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000711544
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
American English Grammar introduces students to American English in detail, from parts of speech, phrases, and clauses to punctuation and explaining (and debunking) numerous "rules of correctness," integrating its discussion of Standard American grammar with thorough coverage of the past sixty years’ worth of work on African American English and other ethnic and regional non-Standard varieties. The book’s examples and exercises include 500 real-world sentences and longer texts, drawn from newspapers, film, song lyrics, and online media as well as from Mark Twain, Stephen King, academic texts, translations of the Bible, poetry, drama, children’s literature, and transcribed conversation and TV and radio shows. Based on twenty years of classroom testing and revision, American English Grammar will serve as a classroom text or reference that teaches students how to think and talk not only about the mechanics of sentences but also about the deep and detailed soul and nuance of the most widely used language in human history.

Functional English Grammar

Author: Graham Lock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521453059
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
This text explores ways in which English grammar enables speakers and writers to represent the world, to interact with one another, and to create coherent messages. The hardback edition provides second language teachers with a functional description of English grammar, in which grammar is viewed not as a set of rules but as a communicative resource. It explores ways in which English grammar enables speakers and writers to represent their experience of the world, to interact with one another, and to create coherent messages. Each chapter includes a focus on areas of difficulty for second language learners, numerous authentic examples, tasks that allow the reader to apply the concepts introduced, and discussion questions. A final chapter covers issues in the learning and teaching of grammar, and reviews methodological options for the second or foreign language classroom. Assuming no previous study of linguistics or English grammar, Functional English Grammar is suitable for self-study or as a textbook in teacher education programs.

English Grammar

Author: Talmy Givón
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027220999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 381

Book Description
The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and literally, grammar like musical form must make sense. But for the instrument to serve its purpose, it must first exist; the rules must be real, they can be explicitly described and taught. This book is intended for both students and teachers, at college level, for both native and nonnative speakers. With the guidance of a teacher this book will serve as a thorough introduction to the grammar of English. Volume II continues with syntactic and communicative complexity: embedded clauses verb complements, relative clauses; detransitive voice passive, anti-passive, impersonal and middle voice, reflexive and reciprocal constructions; focus and topic constructions; nondeclarative speech acts. It closes with interclausal connectivity: conjoined and subordinate clauses, the grammar of discourse coherence, clause chains and thematic paragraphs.

Systems in English Grammar

Author: Peter Master
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542367868
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510

Book Description
This text introduces future teachers of English to the major elements of English grammar in a systematic fashion using step-by-step procedures, charts and diagrams, numerous exercises, and a unique problem-solving approach that prepares the teacher to present grammar to students with confidence and clarity.