Making Sense: The Glamorous World of English Grammar

Author(s): David Crystal

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David Crystal explains grammar's rules and irregularities, shows how to navigate its snares and pitfalls, and explores its history and varieties. He gives practical guidance on how grammar may be used for different purposes and in different settings. He provides a series of insights into the stages by which children acquire grammar and shows how this can be used to guide its early instruction. He casts a mordant eye on what learned people have said about English grammar over the centuries and what they continue to say now. People have always been uneasy about points of grammar and worried that what they say may not always be what they mean. Grammar is complex but, Professor Crystal shows, it need not be daunting: the more we understand it, he argues, the more sense we shall make. Making Sense is as entertaining as it is instructive. David Crystal unites investigations of its nature, variations, history, learning, and teaching with a host of practical advice. Like its three companion volumes it will appeal to everyone interested in the English language and how to use it.

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The world's best-known authority on the English language reveals the secrets and subtleties of its grammar

Previous praise for David Crystal: Crystal's book is full of distractions and delights Daily Express If the history of language is a sort of labyrinth, David Crystal is an excellent guide The Age, Australia Delicious revelations ... Crystal does an excellent job, not just of tracing the etymology of a word, but of relating it to social history, painting a picture of our times through words Independent on Sunday

David Crystal is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. His many books range from clinical linguistics to the liturgy and Shakespeare. He is the author of The Story of English in 100 Words, Spell It Out: The Singular History of English Spelling, and Making a Point: The Pernickety History of English Punctuation, all published by Profile. His Stories of English is a Penguin Classic.

General Fields

  • : 9781781256015
  • : Profile Books Limited
  • : Profile Books Ltd
  • : 0.428
  • : December 2016
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

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  • : David Crystal
  • : Hardback
  • : Main
  • : English
  • : 425
  • : 320