A Student's Introduction to English Grammar
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A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

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A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

About this book

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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Yes, you can access A Student's Introduction to English Grammar by Rodney Huddleston,Geoffrey K. Pullum,Brett Reynolds in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface for the Student
  7. Preface for the Instructor
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Overview of the Book
  11. 3 Verbs and Verb Phrases
  12. 4 Complements in Clauses
  13. 5 Nouns and Determinatives
  14. 6 Adjectives and Adverbs
  15. 7 Prepositions and Particles
  16. 8 Adjuncts: Modifiers and Supplements
  17. 9 Negation
  18. 10 Clause Type
  19. 11 Subordinate Clauses
  20. 12 Relative Constructions
  21. 13 Comparatives and Superlatives
  22. 14 Non-Finite Clauses
  23. 15 Coordinations
  24. 16 Information Structure
  25. Index