Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar

by David Crystal

Book Overview

In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar disappeared from most school curricula, so that terms such as "preposition" and "conjunction" now often confound children and adults alike.

Explaining the nuts and bolts of grammar presents a special challenge, because - far more than is the case with spelling and punctuation - the subject is burdened...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190660570
• ISBN13: 9780190660574
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.4"