The Grammar of English Ideas - A Re-imagining of English Grammar for Language Teachers

This book is about the current pedagogical grammar of English which is taught on training and degree courses to teachers and then taught by those teachers to learners. It is also about a new pedagogical grammar which should be taught to teachers and taught by them to their learners. The reasons why this new pedagogical grammar is needed will be discussed and demonstrated in Part Three of this book.
After this Introduction, Part Two presents the main concepts found in current coursebook grammars and grammar practice materials aimed at teenagers and adults. It is based on a reading of, and over twenty years experience of using, mainstream coursebooks and supplementary materials and grammars. If you want to teach within the current orthodoxy of English language teaching as represented by the materials sold by the main publishers e.g. the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, Macmillan and Pearson etc. then you will need to understand this grammar and be able to teach it.