This groundbreaking undergraduate textbook on modern Standard English grammar is the first to be based on the revolutionary advances of the authors' previous 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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This groundbreaking undergraduate textbook on modern Standard English grammar is the first to be based on the revolutionary advances of the authors' previous 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. This book is intended for students in colleges or universities who have little or no previous background in grammar, and presupposes no linguistics. It contains exercises, and will provide a basis for introductions to grammar and courses on the structure of English not only in linguistics departments but also in English language and literature departments and schools of education.
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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.
