This is a college textbook of English grammar. It is essentially a structural grammar, supplemented by occasional borrowings from transformationism. At the end it gives the student a brief glimpse of the theory and practice of transformational grammar. The book is designed for a three-hour, one-semester course for undergraduates. The limitations of a one-volume grammar must be acknowledged. No one has ever written a grammar describing completely the English language. The fullest grammars are those of Poutsma and Jespersen, running respectively to five and seven bound volumes; and these—admirable as they are and packed with fine material—do not cover the ground. We must therefore expect that a single volume can at best present only the central features of English grammar and offer methods of description which the student can use in analyzing any further data he may collect. And we must expect to find rigorously curtailed or omitted altogether those refinements, exceptions, moot points, and extended developments that might be included in a comprehensive grammar. Thus this book does not pretend to completeness of coverage or to a set of inviolable grammatical statements. The fact is that for most if not all of the generalizations that you will meet here, or in any compact grammar, counterexamples are plentiful. Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston Of Canada Ltd; 2nd Revised edition (1 April 1971) Language: English Paperback: 495 pages ISBN-10 : 003079370X ISBN-13 : 9780030793707 Item weight: 503 G Link download https://nitro.download/view/69EF560A3238126https://nitroflare.com/folder/949760/L00VuZ2xpc2g=
