Re: American Grammar Book

[Diane Haugen <dhaugen -at- MEANS -dot- NET>]

At 2:58 PM +0800 8/20/99, jktan -at- CTLSG -dot- CREAF -dot- COM wrote:

>
>So, I would really appreciate your help in recommending a good book to
>refer to
>for American grammar.

>
Hi, Joo.

If you are not a native English speaker, I can understand why the grammars
written by English speakers may make assumptions which are not part of your
background.

One of the very best grammar books I have ever seen -- for native or
non-native speakers -- was written by Dierdre Wolownick Honnold, a native
English speaker who speaks five languages and teaches English to non-native
speakers.  She often compares sentence constructions across several
languages, which I find helpful myself even though I have only a scattered
knowledge of other languages.

You can read my review of Dierdre's book at

http://www.wcdd.com/dd/reviews/ease.html

as well as my curmudgeonly comments on the whole issue of teaching grammar
at

http://www.wcdd.com/dd/editorials/grammar.html

(and for gosh sakes, skip Strunk and White).

Diane

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