An Introduction to English Grammar

by Adam Speers

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Genres: Nonfiction, Linguistics, Writing, School, Academic, Language, Education

150 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1997

Reviews

[Henry Phillips · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a good and comprehensive introduction to English grammar. Exercises and Notes still to be written.

[Aurora Jonathan Goga · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had surprisingly sloppy handling of examples and underlining/italics.
For example in ch. 7: the example says “I wish I could feel relaxed about [...]” whereas the text discussing the example claims in all three instances that it says “I wish I could feel more relaxed about [...]”. In the place, while discussing the subordinate clause “I could feel more relaxed” the book doesn’t underline the personal pronoun in its first mention, but includes it in the next two places.
There are many other mistakes like this scattered though the book, which is doubly frustrating seeing as this is a book about grammar. There are also an astounding number of mistakes, so I’m almost tempted to congratulate them on getting them all through multiple editions.
On a more positive note, the actual contents are informative, and the examples used do actually illustrate the points well.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

English

[C · Rating 2 out of 5]

le subiré la calificación si apruebo lingüística XD

[Catherine Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful!

[Charlotte · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a page-turner!

[Karna · Rating 3 out of 5]

First reading: 4 stars
Second: 3 stars