Mysteries of English grammar : a guide to complexities of the English language
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Mysteries of English grammar : a guide to complexities of the English language
Routledge, 2022
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
*A fresh and engaging take on English grammar, exploring the subject as an intellectual challenge and aiming to reinvigorate interest in a traditionally dry field *grammar is a major part of any course on English language and linguistics and also is a topic of wide general interest; both authors are experienced in addressing these groups *the overall concept of seeing grammar as a set of puzzles and not a set of rules and the irreverent engaging style sets it apart from other titles
Table of Contents
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Preface
1 Introduction
2. What you must say, what you can say and what you do not say: Grammar and norm
3. Over and out: Prepositions
4. You'll never get nowhere: Double negatives
5. All the way from the Ukraine: The definite article
6. A large amount of exceptions: Countability
7. The author has finished this chapter last year: The present perfect
8. An even more interestinger topic: Comparatives and superlatives
9. I'm lovin' it: The progressive
10. The good, the bad and the ugly: Adjectives
11. What it is is a nonstandard feature: Double be construction
12. Human dogs and inhuman people: Gender and related matters
13. The chapter that I put too many pronouns in it: Shadow pronouns
14. There's heaps of money to be won: Number agreement
15. Because I'm worth it: Insubordinate clauses
16. They are cleverer than she and I: Pronominal case
17. Is that your wife again?: Possession
18. Conclusion
Glossary: Language for language
Index
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