Understanding English Grammar by Martha Kolln

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Understanding English Grammar (7th Edition)

by Martha J. Kolln (otherwise under Martha Kolln)

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Info:	Longman (2005), Edition: 7, Hardcover, 480 pages
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Too much time showing how to diagram sentences to the detriment of more comprehensive description of the vagaries of grammar. This gives the immpression that every category of grammar is neat, but, in fact, there are fuzzy boundaries and syntactic as well as semantic ambiguity in all languages and the most experienced linguist can come up against sentences which are difficult to impossible to give a definitive analysis for. (

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echaika | Sep 28, 2009 |

All college students should be required to take a college-level grammar class. And this is the book they should use. So good. Plus, knowing English grammar inside and out really helps with learning other languages. (

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VenusofUrbino | Nov 25, 2007 |

Transformational Grammar. It helped me sort through grammar a lot more easily than other books had been able to.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0321316835, Hardcover)

This market-leading text for advanced grammar courses is a comprehensive description of sentence structure that encourages students to recognize and use their innate language expertise as they study the systematic nature of sentence grammar. A practical blend of the most useful elements of both traditional and new linguistic grammar, the text emphasizes whole structures, most specifically the ten basic sentence patterns introduced in Chapter 2. Two key features separate this book from others: its clear organization and its user-friendly, accessible language. Both students and teachers appreciate the self-teaching quality that incremental exercises provide throughout the chapters, with answers at the end of the book.

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