Modern English

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a practical reference guide by MARCELLA FRANK Written by a speciálist in English as a second language, Modern English: A Practical Reference Guide is a comprehensive description of English usage and sentence structure. Based on exhaustive research in English grammar, current usage and generál linguistics, it represents a genuine synthesis of the old and the new. Designed to be practical, the book avoids a heavy use of grammatical analysis and special terminology, piacing its greatest emphasis on the facts of usage themselves. These are made clear by a wealth of examples. In addition, special usages are pointed out-informál, literary, British, etc. To make the information readily available, the book is simply organized by parts of speech, clauses, and verbal constructions. Integrated with the description of each grammatical structure are its position and punctuation, and, for every complex structure, its possible rhetorical effect and special meaning. Modern English: A Practical... Tovább

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a practical reference guide by MARCELLA FRANK Written by a speciálist in English as a second language, Modern English: A Practical Reference Guide is a comprehensive description of English usage and sentence structure. Based on exhaustive research in English grammar, current usage and generál linguistics, it represents a genuine synthesis of the old and the new. Designed to be practical, the book avoids a heavy use of grammatical analysis and special terminology, piacing its greatest emphasis on the facts of usage themselves. These are made clear by a wealth of examples. In addition, special usages are pointed out-informál, literary, British, etc. To make the information readily available, the book is simply organized by parts of speech, clauses, and verbal constructions. Integrated with the description of each grammatical structure are its position and punctuation, and, for every complex structure, its possible rhetorical effect and special meaning. Modern English: A Practical Reference Guide will be especially useful to the advanced learner of English as a foreign language because of its heavy concentration on such troublesome items as verb forms and articles, as weil as on the sentence structures that contain or imply predications. The book will alsó be valuable to native speakers of English "because of its realistic description of the English language, which takes into account the many complexities of the language that often do not fit into the simple generalizations made by most grammar books, whether traditional or modern." Vissza