English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course - Softcover

Verspoor, Marjolijn H.; Sauter, Kim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155619661X ISBN 13: 9781556196614

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000

Synopsis

English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course is designed as a 10-week course for students of English Language and Literature, Linguistics, or other language related fields. In 10 weeks the student will be proficient in English analysis at sentence, clause and phrase level and have a solid understanding of the traditional terms and concepts of English syntax. This introduction prepares for practical courses in grammar and writing skills and for theoretical courses in syntactic argumentation.
The Course Book provides
• sentence structures in clear graphics;
• logically structured chapters with Introductions and Summaries;
• exercises with quotations and excerpts from English, American and Australian literature and pop songs.


English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course has been classroom tested at various universities. The students seem to enjoy the ‘dreaded’ syntax course and pass rates have gone up significantly from 50 to 70%.
Originally, this book was accompanied by a CD-rom with a Practice Program for Windows. The Practice Program on CD-rom is not updated anymore by its creators and as a result is no longer compatible with current Windows versions. For this reason, we have ceased to include it with the book.

About this title

Synopsis

Written by two instructors at Groningen University (in the Netherlands), this text guides the student of English through the intricacies of sentence structure. The authors have maintained a stringent and rather advanced level of analysis throughout: one learns the grammatical terms for all types of indirect objects, for example. A CD-ROM is include

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155619661X
• ISBN 13: 9781556196614
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 237