The Structure of English for Readers Writers and Teachers

About this book

The Structure of English for Readers Writers and Teachers Second Edition is a survey of the grammar of English (our pronunciation our spelling system and the structure of our words phrases and sentences) with attention also to dialect variation and the adjustments we make in our language as we move from one social situation to another. The grammatical analysis is couched within the framework of contemporary linguistic theory but in a non-technical very accessible form. As in the first edition applications are made at every point to issues of interest to writers students of literature and teachers of language arts; however this second edition hs been expanded to also include information and applications for teachers and students of English as a second language. In the many exercises that are provided in each chapter readers are invited to apply grammatical concepts to the analysis of a literary passage the speech or writing of a child the language of an English learner or the readers own prose. This is an ideal text for undergraduate students of English literature or composition or for pre-service teachers of English as a first or second language.