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<p><b>A straightforward guide to understanding English grammar</b></p> <p>This book is for people who have never thought about syntax, and who don't know anything about grammar, but who want to learn. Assuming a blank slate on the part of the reader, the book treats English grammar as a product of the speaker's mind, and builds up student skills by exploring phrases and sentences with more and more complexity, as the chapters proceed.</p> <p>This practical guide excites and empowers readers by guiding them step by step through each chapter with intermittent exercises. In order to capitalize on the reader's confidence as a personal authority on English, <i>Understanding Sentence Structure</i> assumes an inclusive definition of English, taking dialect variation and structures common amongst millions of English speakers to be a fact of natural language.</p> <ul> <li>Situates grammar as part of what the student already unconsciously knows</li> <li>Presupposes no prior instruction, not even in prescriptive grammar</li> <li>Begins analyzing sentences immediately, with the &ldquo;big picture&rdquo; (sentences have structure, structure can be ambiguous) and moves through levels of co

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Author

Christina Tortora

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781118659946

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Linguistics, Humanities

Rating

4.5 / 5 (20 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14