Synopsis
This book, A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, provides a wide coverage, incorporating new research into linguistics and grammar, and contemporary usage. It has taken into account feedback and reviews from students, language scholars and writers. The book begins by going into the need to study English, and why it has become imperative for people around the world to learn this language. It looks at how English has established itself as the language of the world, and at the need to understand English grammar to properly communicate in English. The Authors of A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language then provide an overview of English grammar. They then plunge into the subject, beginning with verbs and auxiliaries, the semantics of the verb phrase, nouns and determiners, pronouns and numerals, adjectives and adverbs, and the semantics and grammar of adverbials. The book then covers phrases and sentences - Prepositions and prepositional phrases, the simple sentence, sentence types and discourse functions, pro-forms and ellipses, coordination and the complex sentence. Next, the book covers syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses, complementation of verbs and adjectives, the noun phrase, and theme focus and informative processing. The last chapter is From Sentence to Text. There are three appendices in the book. This book contains a detailed look at the grammar and organization of the English language. About the Author
Sidney Greenbaum was a scholar of the English language. Sidney Greenbaum was born in 1929. He was in the faculty of the University College London as the Quain Professor of English Language and Literature. He also served as the Director of the Survey of English Usage.
