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The importance of the spoken and written word in Christian culture cannot be overestimated. In this English grammar guide, Nancy Wilson surveys the major concepts in English grammar for beginners at the late elementary and junior high level (even adults seeking a brush-up). Wilson avoids common, contrived sentences that serve merely to illustrate her point; instead, she uses many selections from Scripture and from great English writers which help to instruct the student through their content, style, and structure. In addition to a helpful format that highlights key definitions, punctuation issues, and important concepts, short historical sidebars tell the facinating story of the development of English. She continues the traditional and challenging exercise of sentence diagramming, which trains students to quickly ananlyze the structure of any given sentence. The grammatical explanations, the logic of diagrams, and the rhetoric of her examples blend with complementary emphases to create a helpful classical and Christian text.
Paperback: 183 pages
Publisher: Canon Press (April 1, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1591280117
ISBN-13: 978-1591280118
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
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I am putting this book to immediate use.One might suppose an effective grammar book was some big old thick thing of about 600 to 1,000 pages.This modest paperback explains everything in 183 pages, including, at the very end, odd punctuations like the Dash.This is one of my recent discoveries, and I am always looking for improved teaching materials for English.This is a terrific book. One can cite references to English Grammar books, literally by the "hundreds"there are occasionally books which stand out from the crowd, and this is one of those which does stand out. So what could be different between one English Grammar book and the others? This is a critical question.If you study a book for yourself, many books will be sufficient.The differences between one book and another may be difficult to see unless one has tried usingthe book as a tool for teaching others. Then little differences begin to appear. Some persons have the ability to see, insightfully, different things in regards to teaching a subject, that othersfail to discover or do. Such is the case with the Nancy Wilson book. Granted that nearly all English Grammar books published in the past century offer a credible and complete explanation of their subject, the Parts of Speech and so forth, what could yet another offer? What could any author do that elevates their teaching material above the crowd?
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