A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

by Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Brett Reynolds, et al.

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521612888
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.7" x 0.7" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Grammar Book

I got my book in time to catch up quickly with my online class. Thanks for the quick delivery!

excellent resource for relearning english grammar

When I started studying Tibetan, I discovered pretty quickly that my understanding of English grammar was a little too rusty. While I found help for my affliction on several excellent grammar websites, I wanted a grammar book to throw in my bag with my other study materials; one is not always connected. Of the seven grammars I considered, "A Student's Introduction to English Grammar" is the hands-down winner. The book is well written, clear, to-the-point and based on recent research rather than 19th century grammar dogma. It includes an overview that maps the rest of the book, individual chapters on each of the major components of English grammar and a decent glossary. I find the technical definitions of terms, wealth of examples and clear structure are almost always just what I need to decode the mysteries of grammarian thinking and understand the key differences between English and Tibetan grammar. I recommend that book to anyone interested in linguistics or studying a foreign language and for whom English is their first language. I don't believe it is well-suited for English language learners; they would likely be better served by a grammar like Yate's "Master the Basics".

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English Education majors and secondary English Teachers: check this out!

This text helped me to articulate the 'principles' of Standard English by examining our language in all its varieties scientifically and intuitively. Such articulation necessates a thorough understanding of the notions of descriptive vs. prescriptive, standard vs. nonstandard, formal vs. informal, grammatical vs. ungrammatical, and constitutive vs. regulative. This introductory text is written for the mature student who has had little or no background in linguistics or traditional school grammar. Consequently, the authors begin by demonstrating how traditional grammar instruction with its eight parts of speech and semantic definitions falls terribly short of accounting for the many rule exceptions and illogicalities of langauge. I highly recommend this text for English Education majors and secondary school English teachers.