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 ...
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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.
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Unless you are a Ph.D. level linguist, this is not an introduction of any sort. Exrtremely dense. Rather than spending any time going over the basics (such as listing the tenses in English, when each is used, and their regular constructions), the books seems to revel in listing exceptions and irregular situations. The book makes a big deal about using a "modern" approach to grammar because of the exceptions and irregular situation that don't fit into more traditional approaches. Instead of an "Introduction," I would title this book something like, "Hundreds of superficially explained exceptions to traditional grammar classification." There is nothing wrong with including the exceptions. But I do wish the book had provided a stronger foundation in the regular situations first, brefore jumping off the deep end, so that irregular cases could be contrasted against something.
