Teach Yourself English Grammar (1980)

Teach Yourself English Grammar (1980)


Author: B.A. Phythian


# of pages: 306



Table of contents:

1. The Sentence

2. The Noun

3. The Adjective

4. The Verb

5. The Adverb

6. The Pronoun

7. The preposition

8. The Conjunction and Interjection

9. A Review Chapter

10. Analysis of the Sentence

11. Equivalents

12. Kinds of Sentences

13. Analysis of Sentences

14. Punctuation and the Use of Capitals

15. Key to Exercises

Index


Description (from the Preface):


The original Teach Yourself English Grammar, by Gordon Humphreys, was published in 1945 an d enjoyed considerable success. It adopted the conventional format of grammar books in devoting chapters to the principal parts of speech, and then dealing with analysis of sentence-structure, including punctuation. Every piece of explanation was followed by exercises, the intention being that the student should be able to work his way through the book without any other aid.

...heavily revised and up-dated-continues to be based on the assumption that an understanding of the English language must begin with a working knowledge of its components parts - parts of speech - and the way they fit together into the basic units of sense, notably the sentence