Discovering English Grammar takes a modern, transformational approach to grammar. Unlike other transformational texts, it is highly readable and teachable, providing broad and thorough coverage of English grammatical structures. It also focuses on issues facing future teachers.
The text minimizes technical terms, and it assumes no prior training in syntax. Students practice concepts through the frequent exercises, and they can check their answers by consulting the book's web site. Discovering English Grammar covers the whole range of English constructions, involving students as the text moves from simpler to more complex topics, allowing them to inductively “discover” the structure of our language.
Understanding the structure of language is the key to better communication, but for many people, the boring basics of grammar seem tedious and unbearable. But in Veit's unique fashion of introducing grammar as a process of discovery, the author takes his readers on an inductive search for the structure of language. Taking a transformational approach to grammar, this book provides broad, thorough coverage of English grammatical structures. offering a current, enjoyable approach to language learning and communication. By minimizing technical terms, Veit invites those with no prior training in syntax to explore the whole range of English constructions, from simpler to more complex topics, allowing readers to inductively OdiscoverO the structure of the English language for themselves. Second-language learners, linguists, English and ESL educators.
