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Grammar: recommended resources
Author: Peter Wilson
There is a good introduction to the whole subject in F. R. Palmer, Grammar, Harmondsworth,
Penguin, 2nd edn, 1984.
A good learning textbook, designed for teaching undergraduate and A level students, is Dennis
Freeborn, A Course Book in English Grammar, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1987 (278 pp.) You will
learn well if you work through this.
A simpler but valuable book is David Crystal, Rediscover Grammar 2nd ed. 1995, Harlow, Longman,
1988 (223 pp.).
A similar title, Discover Grammar, by David Crystal and Geoff Barton, Essex, Longman, 1996 (159
pp.) has been published.
Also useful are Sidney Greenbaum and Randolph Quirk, A Student's Grammar of the English
Language, Harlow, Longman, 1990 (490 pp.), with an accompanying workbook: Sylvia Chalker, A
Student's English Grammar Workbook, Harlow, Longman, 1992;
Randolph Quirk and Sidney Greenbaum, A University Grammar of English, London, Longman, 1973
(484 pp.);
Greenbaum, Sidney, An Introduction to English Grammar, Harlow, Longman, 1991 (336 pp.);
Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik , A Communicative Grammar of English, Harlow, Longman, 1975
(324 pp.).
The most authoritative reference book is Randolph Quirk et al, A Comprehensive Grammar of the
English Language, London, Longman 1985 (1,779 pp.).
Other reference books include Sidney Greenbaum, The Oxford English Grammar, London, Oxford
University Press, 1996;
Edmund Weiner ed, The Oxford Reference Grammar, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Recommended websites:
The Owl at Purdue
owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/679/01/
Academic Writing in English (AWE) website can be found at
http://slb-ltsu.hull.ac.uk/awe/index.php?title=Main Page
Royal Literary Fund. Writing
www.rlf.org.uk/fellowshipscheme/writing/index.cfm
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