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Cargando... English for the Natives: Discover the Grammar You Don't Know You Know (2013)por Harry Ritchie
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I think I was kidding myself, when I saw a review for this book in a newspaper, that I would be building on my own layman's grasp of grammar if I downloaded a copy. Nope. Mr Ritchie is very informative, and his droll sense of humour helps the subject along, but I think I will continue to subscribe to his theory that I already know how to use grammar, and couldn't care less for labels like subjunctives and gerunds. The opening chapters on a history of language and how we learned English are very dry, and apart from a few snide asides on the ridiculous rules of a few hard-line Victorian grammarians, so are the breakdowns of nouns, determiners, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - you get the picture. For a guy who insists that most native English speakers already know all this, if not the fancy terms, then Ritchie certainly devotes a lot of the book to explaining and reiterating how grammar works. Nothing wrong in that - he does exactly what it says on the tin - but not very original either. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
'My first English lesson was grammar with the terrifying Mrs Petrie. She spent the entire time marching up and down the classroom, thwacking various items of school furniture with a ruler while she banged on about the ING part of the verb. I sat there, vibrating with fear, desperately trying to figure out what on earth she could mean. Irregular Negative Gerund? Intransitive Nominative Genitive? It was only years later, when I was teaching English to foreign students, that I realised that English grammar wasn't obscure and wilfully difficult but a fascinating subject which I was already brilliant at - and this book will prove that you are too.' Forget the little you think you know about English grammar and start afresh with this highly entertaining and accessible guide. English for the Natives outlines the rules and structures of our language as they are taught to foreign students - and have never before been explained to us. Harry Ritchie also examines the grammar of dialects as well as standard English and shows how non-standard forms are just as valid. With examples from a wide variety of sources, from Ali G to John Betjeman, Margaret Thatcher to Match of the Day, this essential book reveals some surprising truths about our language and teaches you all the things you didn't know you knew about grammar. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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