The Truth About English Grammar: A Guide to Writing Good English for Writers and Everyone Else - Hardcover

Pullum, Geoffrey K.

 
9781509560547: The Truth About English Grammar: A Guide to Writing Good English for Writers and Everyone Else
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1509560548 ISBN 13: 9781509560547
Verlag: Polity, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Do you worry that your understanding of English grammar isn't what it should be? It may not be your fault. For hundreds of years, vague and confused ideas about how to state the rules have been passed down from one generation to the next. The available books for the general reader - thousands of them, shamelessly plagiarizing each other - repeat the same misguided definitions and generalizations that appeared in the schoolbooks used by your great-great-grandparents.
 
Geoff Pullum thinks you deserve better. In this book he breaks away from the tradition. Presupposing no prior knowledge or technical terms, he provides an informal introduction to the essential concepts underlying grammar and usage. With the foundation he provides, you will be equipped to understand the classification of words, the structure of phrases and clauses, and why some supposed grammar rules are really just myths. Also covered are some of the key points about spelling, apostrophes, hyphens, capitalization, and punctuation.
 
Illuminating, witty, and incisive, The Truth About English Grammar is a vital book for all who love writing, reading, and thinking about English.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Geoff Pullum is the author of Linguistics: Why It Matters. He has taught linguistics and English grammar for decades on both sides of the Atlantic, and is a coauthor (with Rodney Huddleston) of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. In addition to many academic articles and books, he has published satirical and humorous writing on language and linguistics.

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Verlag
Polity
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509560548
ISBN 13 
9781509560547
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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