A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

This book is an introductory textbook on modern Standard English grammar,

intended mainly for undergraduates, in English departments and schools of education

as well as linguistics departments. (See www.cambridge.org/0521612888 for a

link to the associated web site, where additional information can be found.) Though

it takes note of developments in linguistics over the past few decades, and assumes a

thorough knowledge of English, it does not presuppose any previous study of grammar

or other aspects of linguistics.

We believe that every educated person in the English-speaking world should

know something about the details of the grammar of English. There are a number of

reasons.

There are hardly any professions in which an ability to write and speak crisply

and effectively without grammatical mistakes is not a requirement on some

occasions.

Although a knowledge of grammar will not on its own create writing skills, there

is good reason to think that understanding the structure of sentences helps to

increase sensitivity to some of the important factors that distinguish good writing

from bad.

Anyone who aims to improve their writing on the basis of another person's

technicalcriticism needs to grasp enough of the technical terms of grammatical

description to make sure the criticism can be understood and implemented.

It is widely agreed that the foremost prerequisite for computer programming

is the ability to express thoughts clearly and grammatically in one's native

language.

In many professions (the law being a particularly clear example) it is a vital part

of the content of the work to be able to say with confidence what meanings a particular

sentence or paragraph will or won't support under standard conceptions of

English grammar.

Discussions in a number of academic fields often depend on linguistic analysis of

English: not only linguistics, but also philosophy, literature, and cognitive science.

Industrial research and development areas like information retrieval, search

engines, document summary, text databases, lexicography, speech analysis and

synthesis, dialogue design, and word processing technology increasingly regard

a good knowledge of basic linguistics, especially English grammar, as a prerequisite.

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