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... definitions, so we have many English grammars (or grammar books), which vary in their coverage and their accuracy. The largest English dictionary is the scholarly twenty-volume Oxford English Dictionary, ... (1.7-10) Standard English 14 Variation In standard English 15 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.9 1.10 The spread of English in second- language countries 8 English pidgins and English as an international language 12 Correct English ... 16 Good English 17 Chapter 2 The Scope and Nature of Grammar Summary What is grammar? (2.1-3) 2.1 Types of grammar books 23 2.3 Theories of grammar 25 2.2 Descriptive and prescriptive grammar...

... perspective away from grammar as a list of arbitrary problems, and towards grammar as a means of free expression. We have tried to produce a grammar of real English the English that people speak ... usage. Some great grammars of English for example Otto Jespersen's A Modern English Grammar support each statement with citations from published books, just as the major dictionaries of English ... compilers. It is the first grammar of its kind, and it is deferent in many respects from other kinds of grammar. This grammar attempts to make accurate statements about English, as seen in the huge...

... Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970) ODWE The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981) OED The Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... propellent Easy PDF Copyright â 1998,2003 Visage Software This document was created with FREE version of Easy PDF. Please visit http://www.visagesoft.com for more details The Oxford Guide to English ... Concise Oxford Dictionary (edn. 7, Oxford, 1982) Hart's Rules. Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers (edn. 39, Oxford, 1983) MEU H. W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage...