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ESSAY WRITING: Teaching the Basics from the Ground up | Download PDF

This book is intended for Students, teachers, especially those who teach in middle school or junior high. It is an introduction to essay writing, a book that will help teachers help students write better essays. Although I have not taught at the high-school level, I believe that this book might be of assistance to many teachers there as a review of the basics—just don’t expect it to be the “go to” source for the upper grade levels.

Students often do not understand why they have to write essays. Middle school students ask if it is to acquire a skill needed in high school (“Preparation H” syndrome); high-school students believe it’s a skill required in college. As teachers, our task is to foster inquiring minds. The skills required to write an essay are the same skills required to write a speech, to prepare a persuasive argument, to prove a point, to explain an idea—and on the list goes. If we can help our students acquire these skills as we “teach” the essay, we will have assisted them in accomplishing truly valuable life skills. In my experience (a phrase often repeated in the pages that follow), essays have a bad reputation among students.

A Comprehensive GRAMMAR of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Download in PDF)

A Comprehensive GRAMMAR of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE Download Free in PDF for CSS / PMS and all related competitive Exams preparation.

The book “A Comprehensive GRAMMAR of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE” is Indeed comprehensive and unquestionably not for first reading. But it is attractively written and expressions interesting. A truly remarkable book dealing key areas in grammar, a must read for every aspirant of the English Language.

Reviewed by John Algeo (University of Georgia)

A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language is the best and most complete description yet made of present-da English morphology and syntax. Its title, to be sure, is the modern equivalent of the Anglo-Saxon beot-a formal and ritualistic boast by a warrior, detailing his prowess and the feats he intends to perform. For the warrior to fail to realize a boast once made was to turn it into mere vainglorious boasting. But to fulfill a promise delivered before the hearth-companions was to gain an immortal name for oneself in the songs of the scoops. The boast f this book’s title is fulfilled in the pages of what is, indeed, the most comprehensive grammar we hve for English.

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No grammar, to be sure, can include all the details of the structure of a language, just as no dictionary can include all the words in a language. “Comprehensive” is not “complete”. But it does mean inclusive rather than exclusive and implies a broad grasp of reality. In that sense, the Comprehensive deserves its name.

This book is a sequel to, rather than revision of, the authors’ earlier work, A Grammar of Contemporary English (1972). The new book is considerably larger and more thorough than the earlier one, large and thorough though the old book was. Moreover, although the new book preserves the same basic approach to grammatical description as its predecessor, t he details have often been reanalyzed. Indeed, the authors re devised primary responsibility in this sequel, so that all the material has had a fresh approach to it.

he authors have drawn upon the insights of grammarians of all schools, but have limited themselves to the doctrinaire restriction of none. The result is a grammar that might be appropriately called new traditional. To read it requires no imitation into the special formalism and argon of any theoretical school.