A New English Grammar - American edition: American English grammar by example (Linguapress English)

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Reviewed in WAESOL Educator, Washington, 2023"This book is one of the most practical grammar reference books we’ve seen, where each grammar point is explained in a very simple way with helpful examples as well as warnings about usage pitfalls. "Reviewed by CATESOL, the California TESOL Association, 2022. :"This concise and useful reference book ..... will make for a significant and appreciated companion to the majority of ESL textbooks or American English grammar books for students involved in the complexities of learning English as their second, third or fourth language."Reviewed in Currents, No 45, 2022 - from MATSOL, the Massachusetts Association of Educators of English Language Learners. :" (This book) is .... a valuable resource for both learners and teachers of English as a Second or Foreign Language. This book can be either self-studied or taught by teachers, ... and covers all the grammatical topics needed for teachers in an English class. "Description.Targeting the needs of teachers and learners in the context of ELA and ESL, as well as the needs of a general readership in the USA and worldwide, A New English Grammar, a grammar of American English, is the American version of the author's acclaimed Descriptive Grammar of English. While the grammar of American English and of British English (or International English) are essentially the same, there are a few differences, and in this new American English version of the grammar, priority is given to American usage.A review of the Descriptive Grammar of English in EFL Magazine commended the "clarity of explanations and wealth of examples" which make this book an ideal tool for both teachers and learners alike, and for both native speakers and those learning English as a second or foreign language.For the purposes of this American English edition, examples of grammar usage have been selected to reflect the life and interests of readers in the United States, making this grammar relevant to the experiences of American students or international students wishing to familiarize themselves with life and culture in the USA.This English Grammar uses American English spelling in those few cases where it differs from British English.It is important however to stress that American English and British English are one and the same language. The biggest differences between the two are phonetic, not grammatical. Native English speakers can usually tell if a speaker is from North America or from Britain, or maybe from Australia or some other part of the English-speaking world; but they will find it much harder to notice, without actually thinking about it, whether a written document is in American English or in British English.There are a few telltale signs; Americans write realize where the British will write realise; Americans write traveled while the British write travelled... and in this case it is the American spelling that respects the traditional rules concerning the doubling or not of consonants in English. In the twenty-first century however, there is so much movement of both written texts and audio documents that the differences between American English and British English are becoming blurred. People in the USA read books and magazine articles, not to mention websites, written in British English, and people in the UK read plenty of books, articles and websites written in American English.Still it makes sense for anyone in the USA, or international users who have more contact with American speakers, to look at grammar in an American context, which is what this grammar book does. Read more