English Grammar Questions
Q1: Is Logically Structured English Grammar complete?
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From D G - Quebec, Canada "... actually, ESL students are obliged to buy 3 or 4 grammar books of a suite to really learn the essence of the English grammar. However, it seems that your book is complete and this is a true ..." "... when I started 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 buying 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.] Now, we worked for about 4 years on writing LSEG [this is, until 2006], 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 thorough/complete grammar book available, because it was designed/planned that way on purpose. However, note that being just "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 grammar", the academic version, not any local, regional, or national version. Each element in the above vertical list is extremely important. For example, in order to implement a logic structure of the English grammar we (at Corollary Theorems) had to go back to the grammar taught 50 or 60 years ago. It happens that English grammar is no longer taught properly in schools, in almost the entire English world today. This may sound absurd to you, but only a few English teachers today know some English grammar; most English teachers juggle with a few tricks [for example, the one named "modifiers"], only that "stuff" cannot help anybody understand anything. The idea is, if you want to learn English grammar, then you do have to spend a few good years in "training courses", and you do have to pay lots of dear hundreds for that. Mastering English grammar is no joke. However, the good news is, you can also do it the easy way now, with LSEG. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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