Title An outline of English grammar with practices and Key
Binding Soft Cover
Book Condition Very Good
Edition 1st Edition
Publisher Australia Australian National University 1998
073153302X / 9780731533022
Seller ID 056384
87 indexed pages including bibliography. This work deals in a thoroughly modern, authoritative and yet accessible way with the fundamentals of English grammar. The book is aimed at general readers and also, specifically, at students in senior secondary and in tertiary educational institutions. Following an outline chapter on morphology and syntax, there are ten chapters dealing in detail with the word classes: nouns, pronouns, adjectives and the rest. Then follow four chapters on word strings - phrases and clauses, and sentences and their parts and structures. This book has several unique features: Short sections and short chapters, with clear explanations and illustrative examples that bring the points of grammar to life. Citations from over thirty books and magazines to show the points of grammar in actual use. Copious practices - over sixty of them - accompanying the grammar explanations. A key to the practices so that readers can self-check the answers to the practices. Anyone with an interest in the intricacies and the beauty of the English language will obtain enlightenment and enjoyment from this book. The upper corner of the first leaf was cut off.