College English Grammar: Comprehensive Explanation and Practice

Author: Guo Yuejin
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Grammar learners should absorb the essence of different grammar schools and explore the commonalities among them. Any valuable language should be a combination of structure, function, and social environment. Grammar structure only has vitality when it exists in a meaningful context. From a historical perspective, grammar is prescriptive, but in the pragmatic field, it is malleable; from the perspective of reality and development, grammar is also descriptive. Therefore, college grammar teaching should emphasize prescriptiveness while appropriately focusing on the descriptive nature of subject-oriented grammar, highlighting the application of grammar in language communication. The editors of Advanced English Grammar: Comprehensive Explanation and Practice adhere to the spirit of innovation, pragmatism, and flexibility, following the principle of learner-centeredness, striving to break the traditional framework and model of grammar textbooks, and aiming for novelty, richness, and compatibility in content. This book fully incorporates the strengths of different versions of grammar textbooks while being meticulously crafted to possess advantages and features unmatched by other similar books:
1. It handles the relationship between generality and specificity within each grammar item in a columnar format. Each chapter respects the psychological characteristics of learners, discussing general rules while exploring the specificity of prescriptive grammar items.
2. It demonstrates the relationship between chapter structure and learning methods, providing appropriate learning guidance for readers with a certain amount of space.
3. It addresses the relationship between learning and exams, with the purpose of not only preparing for exams but also improving readers' language proficiency. The book consists of nine chapters, with detailed content and a novel writing style. Each chapter is composed of four parts: concise grammar explanation, learning guidance, selected and solved past grammar exam questions, and graded exercises for language proficiency tests.