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A new edition of a successful undergraduate textbook on contemporary international Standard English grammar, based on Huddleston and Pullum's earlier award-winning work, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002). The analyses defended there are outlined here more briefly, in an engagingly accessible and informal style. Errors of the older tradition of English grammar are noted and corrected, and the excesses of prescriptive usage manuals are firmly rebutted in specially highlighted notes that explain what older authorities have called 'incorrect'…
Even more engaging for students, the textbook has been thoroughly rewritten in a conversational style with many additional exercises
Accessible for students without prior knowledge of grammatical concepts as chapters have been revised to avoid unnecessary technicalities
A newly added Chapter 8 on Adjuncts aligns the chapter topics perfectly with the award-winning Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, to which students can turn for more depth on topics of interest
Equips students to drive their own learning, at their own pace, through a new suite of online resources including multiple-choice quiz questions, a detailed glossary, an appendix on morphology, and tree diagrams which further illustrate selected examples in the book
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Authors
Rodney Huddleston,University of Queensland
Rodney Huddleston was educated at Cambridge and Edinburgh, and taught English language at the University of Queensland for the majority of his career before beginning a decade of full-time work leading the team that produced The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CGEL) in 2002.
Geoffrey K. Pullum,University of Edinburgh
Geoffrey K. Pullum, a co-author of CGEL, was educated at York, Cambridge, and London, and has taught linguistics at University College London, the University of California, and the University of Edinburgh.
Brett Reynolds,Humber College
Brett Reynolds is a professor at Humber College, Toronto, specializing in academic English and the teaching of English as a second language.