English Grammar Questions
Q1: Is LSEG complete?
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From D G - Quebec, Canada "... actually the ESL learners are obliged to buy 3 or 4 grammar books of a suite to really learn the essence of the English language. It seems that your book is complete and this is a true ..." "... when I began my English courses I attended an online course using an intermediate Cambridge University Press Grammar book, and resource from the World Wide Web. This is what led me to buy your book, because I never found out such a complete reference ..." [The above words do form a question, though it is too long; therefore, we have selected only the most interesting paragraphs from it.] We worked for about 4 years on writing LSEG, and we have referenced tens of reputable grammar books--any book we could get our hands on. Therefore, we know what is available on the market today in terms of English grammar knowledge. Logically Structured English Grammar is indeed the most complete grammar book available, because it was intentionally designed that way. Note that being "complete" is far from sufficient for a good grammar book. An English grammar book is required: 1. to be (indeed) complete--starting from phonetics, and ending with punctuation; 2. to present grammatical topics logically; 3. to present grammatical mechanisms in simple structures, easy to understand; 4. to present grammar from two perspectives: morphology and syntax; 5. to present the "International English", the academic version, not local, regional versions. Each element in the above vertical list is extremely important. For example, in order to implement a logic structure of the English grammar we had to go back to the grammar taught 50 or 60 years ago. It happens the English grammar is no longer taught in schools in almost the entire English world. This may sound absurd to you, but only a few English teachers today know little English grammar, and they are interested in learning more--note that English grammar is, in fact, their profession. Most teachers know few tricks [for example, the one named "modifiers"], only that cannot help anybody understand anything. The idea is, if you want to learn English grammar, you have to spend few good years in "training courses", and you have to pay few dear thousands for that. Mastering the English grammar is no joke. The good news is, you can also do that the easy way now, with LSEG. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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