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The Oxford English GrammarBUY FROM AMAZON.COM
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Usually ships in 24 hours  (6 customer reviews)RRP: Buy New: $31.84 You Save: $28.11 (47%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours EDITORIAL REVIEWWritten by one of the world's leading grammarians, The Oxford English Grammar is an authoritative review of and topic reference for English grammar. Opening with an outline of national, regional, and social variation in English, the book details descriptive and prescriptive approaches and attitudes to English among both native and non-native speakers. This is followed by an account of the development of grammar, and a review of modern approaches to this complex subject. The central section of the book is a presentation of current English grammar at sentence, clause, phrase, and word level; with the last chapters covering grammar in relation to discourse, word-formation, lexis, pronunciation and intonation, punctuation, and spelling. A full index is provided, and examples of usage are drawn from a wide range of sources, including use of the new international Corpus of English at University College London. Written in a readable and absorbing style, The Oxford English Grammar is an essential reference for English speakers around the world. PRODUCT DETAILSPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPub. Date: 2nd May 1996 Catalog: Book Media: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 672 Ean: 9780198612506 Isbn: 0198612508 ABOUT THIS BOOKUSER REVIEWS
I am a brazilian student. I prefer that book instead because it is more pedagogical: Cambridge Grammar of English Paperback with CD ROM: A Comprehensive Guide (Cambridge Grammar of English)
This book is excellent. It is over my expectation. The explanation is clear and completed. I recommend it all of students and who have interesting to study English.
It's a very good grammar. But for the learners (as me), Oxford have better options. The advantage: this is a single volume, instead of 3 on learners grammar. Much less interactive than the learner's material. The only real negative point. Good purchase.
Interesting and complete: a book on English Grammar for curious native speaker. If you are a foreign learner it's definitely not the best.
As the other reviewer has said, this isn't a usage guide. It is partly a reference grammar, but also partly a textbook on the whole English language. Indeed, the title may be misleading, because most self-proclaimed grammars of English limit themselves to sentence-level syntax and a bit of morphology (inflections and such). Greenbaum includes chapters on phonology (the sounds of language) and morphology (word structure), and discourse (grammatical structure above the level of single sentences). The material here is the most accurate you will find in a book directed at a general (non-linguistic) audience, and is essentially a condensed version of the material in *A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language*, of which Greenbaum was a co-author, and which remains the best one-volume reference grammar of English. It is a sad fact that most grammar books marketed to a general audience perpetuate factual inaccuracies about English grammar. Greenbaum gives you English the way it really works, without descending into the complexities of contemporary linguistic theory. My one complaint about the book is not about its content but about its production quality. My copy, at least, is printed on cheap paper and the few graphics are not the sharpest. I expect more from a $45 book. SIMILAR ITEMS: |
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