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What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: A Student's Grammar of the English LanguageUser Review - Gunnar - GoodreadsThis is by far the worst grammar I've ever encountered, and I'm a native English speaker. It's simply a mess. Terms are often "explained" by providing one or two examples, without ever defining the ... Read full review Review: A Student's Grammar of the English LanguageUser Review - Yzabel Ginsberg - GoodreadsRead from cover to cover to make sure I knew enough grammar-related terms in English, and to avoid making mistakes stemming from confusion between English and French wording (such as the one likely to ... Read full review Related books
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18 other sections not shown Common terms and phrases3rd person adjectives adjuncts adverbial antecedent apposition cataphoric cleft sentence common Compare concord conjoins conjuncts construction context contrast coordination corresponding count nouns determiner direct object disjuncts ditransitive ditransitive verbs dynamic dynamic verb element ellipsis elliptical end-focus English esp BrE especially example expressed focus function genitive girl grammatical ia/-clause implies indefinite indicated indirect speech infinitive clause inflection informal lexical main clause main verb matrix clause meaning modal auxiliaries modified negation negative nominal nonassertive noncount nonfinite nonpersonal nonrestrictive NOTE noun phrase occur operator participle passive past perfect past tense phrasal verbs plural position postmodifier preceding predication premodifier prepositional complement prepositional phrases prepositional verbs present pro-form prosodic question reference relation relative clauses restricted role semantic sense singular speaker stative structure subject complement subject-operator inversion subjunctive subordinate clause superordinate syntactic usually verb phrase verbless clauses w/i-element words zero References to this bookFrom other books
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