New Perspective English Grammar

Author: Yi Jialai
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book is designed for those who have already mastered English pronunciation and wish to truly learn and use English effectively. It is divided into sixteen chapters, explaining fundamental concepts of English and providing various regular, simple, easy, quick, and effective learning methods. Readers can achieve the best learning results with less time and effort. The book analyzes and compares the similarities and differences between English and Chinese in terms of culture, thinking, and expression. It summarizes essential knowledge in concise, clear, and easy-to-understand examples, tables, and formulas: the differences between English and Chinese parts of speech, various forms of the passive voice, subject-verb agreement, non-finite verbs, subjunctive mood, the usage of "It," and inversion.
With unique insights and theories, the book clarifies key difficulties often overlooked by linguists—language structure: the composition, function, and position of English phrases, eight basic sentence patterns, the twelve functions of clauses, the concept and role of words, phrases, and sentences, multiple modifiers before the head noun in English, the arrangement of multiple modifiers after the head noun and pronoun, the joint modification of the head noun and pronoun by multiple modifiers, and the differences in the position and order of adverbials in English and Chinese.
To address specific challenges in learning English, the book proposes dozens of key questions. Each question is answered in detail and clearly in the respective chapters. This section provides a small number of exercises.