This reference offers clear and immediate access to over 1000 grammatical terms and their meanings. The explanations are accompanied by quotations from existing works on grammar. The wider subject of linguistics is also discussed, including phonetics and Chomskian grammar.
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Edmund Weiner is co-editor of the OED, Second Edition, and author (with Andrew Delahunty) of the Oxford Guide to English Usage. Sylvia Chalker is the author of Current English Grammar, and a contributor to the Oxford Companion to the English Language.
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