{"product_id":"9781589011663","title":"Analyzing the Grammar of English","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnalyzing the Grammar of English\u003c\/i\u003e offers a descriptive analysis of the indispensable elements of English grammar. Designed to be covered in one semester, this textbook starts from scratch and takes nothing for granted beyond a reading and speaking knowledge of English. Extensively revised to function better in skills-building classes, it includes more interspersed exercises that promptly test what is taught, simplified and clarified explanations, greatly expanded and more diverse activities, and a new glossary of over 200 technical terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnalyzing the Grammar of English \u003c\/i\u003eis the only English grammar to view the sentence as a strictly punctuational construct—anything that begins with a capital letter and ends with a period, a question mark, an exclamation mark, or three dots—rather than a syntactic one, and to load, in consequence, all the necessary syntactic analysis onto the clause and its constituents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is also one of the very few English grammars to include—alongside multiple examples of canonical or \"standard\" language—occasional samples of stigmatized speech to illustrate grammar points.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudents and teachers in courses of English grammatical analysis, English teaching methods, TESOL methods, and developmental English will all benefit from this new edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Georgetown University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059931070704,"sku":"9781589011663","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781589011663_p0.jpg?v=1763791920","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781589011663","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}