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| Title: | University Grammar of English
: with a Swedish Perspective |
| Author: | Dr Maria Estling Vannestål |
| ISBN: | 9144034997 : 9789144034997 |
| Illustrations: | b/w illus |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 540 |
| Weight: | 1.082 Kg. |
| Published: | Studentlitteratur AB - August 2007 |
| List Price: | 47 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | ELT grammars & grammar practice: Sweden |
A corpus-based university grammar with a Swedish perspective, written in English. The book is mainly aimed at first-term students of English at Swedish universities. What else characterises this book? Its layout aims at clarity, particularly in the way it points out problem areas and uses symbols to illustrate different aspects of language usage; it gives an introduction to the study of grammar and the building blocks of language; it provides extensive information about language variation, based on corpus research; it comprises a large number of exercises of various kinds, traditional as well as non-traditional ones; it comes with a website including corpus exercises and short audio lectures; it provides information about differences between English and several other languages used by our immigrants and exchange students; all examples are authentic, taken from, for instance, language corpora, the Internet, lyrics and students' essays; a comprehensive appendix includes, among other things, useful expressions and an English-Swedish/Swedish-English glossary.
Introduction; What is grammar; The building blocks of language; People, places, things and abstractions: dealing with nouns; What we do, experience, feel and say: dealing with verbs; Describing and classifying: dealing with adjectives; Giving more information: dealing with adverbs and adverbials; Pointing out, referring back, replacing, questioning etc: dealing with pronouns; Mathematics in grammar: dealing with numerals; Establishing relations: dealing with prepositions; Joining words, phrases and clauses: dealing with conjunctions; Information structure and sentence form; Revision exercises; Key; Index.
