Through clear and comprehensive grammar explanations, extensive practice exercises, and lively communicative activities, Grammar Dimensions provides students with the language skills they need to communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.
Since this book is designed for the pupil rather than for the teacher, all suggestions as to the teaching of English grammar have been conveyed rather by implication than by specific recommendation..
In preparing this shorter version of A Grammar of Contemporary English, our aim has been to satisfy the needs of university students who require the comprehensiveness of the original work but not its detail or extensive theoretical discussion or wealth of exemplification. But, insofar as it has been compatible with so curtailed a treatment, we have been careful to preserve the structure of the parent book so that reference to the fuller study can be easy and direct, chapter by chapter, as required...
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This is an excellent book on Linguistics. It gives a brief introduction on the related topics.
For several years, this book has proved lo be useful to students who wanted an introduction to Linguistics. Grammar and Semantics. The requirement of the students was. and is, for a book that familiarizes them with a new subject and creates interest in studying it further... One more new chapter (Chapter 11) on Supra-sentential Grammar covering rules of cohesion and linkage, which is a must for the study of linguistics today, has been added..