Oxford Guide to English Grammar

Easily navigable.Excellent examples and sufficiently succinct without being simplistic.Perfect for teaching and writing purposes.Covers tricky areas like compound nouns in a way that suddenly makes English seem much more 'teachable' than ever before.

About The Author:

John Eastwood

Table Of Contents:

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Key to symbols

Sentence and text

Verb forms

Infinitive, gerund and participles

The noun phrase

Adjectives, adverbs and prepositions

Main clauses and sub clauses

Word forms

Appendix

American English

Glossary

Index

Special Features:

Provides a systematic account of grammatical forms and the way they are used in standard British English today.

The emphasis is on meanings and how they govern the choice of grammatical pattern.

Summaries at the start of each chapter review the topic as a whole and show users where to find the particular information they need.

Over fifty texts and conversations, most of them from authentic sources, show patterns in context.

There are many authentic single-sentence examples.

Sensible advice is given on the avoidance of non-standard usage.

A whole chapter is devoted to differences between American and British grammar.

Technical terms are used sparingly, and defined in a glossary.