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日期: 1999年7月5日 20:10
主题: quirk and greenbaum
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>Dear Elvis Ho,
>
>greetings! congratulations on your upcoming opportunity.
>
>while you may want to purchase a grammar book, I do not believe that the
>comprehensive grammar of English is necessary.
>
>I teach at the college level, and as I am a linguist, I own all three of
the
>Quirk & Greenbaum grammars (A concise grammar of English; a Grammar of
>English; A Comprehensive Grammar of English). But almost never do I
consult
>the biggest volume of the Quirk series. SOMETIMES I do, but that is so
rare.
> So, I'd say, no need to spend the huge money for that book at this point.
>
>Greenbaum, I believe, does a much smaller book called College Grammar,
which
>is good. And you are right, the Quirk/Greenbaum references are very solid
>ones.
>
>I think you might appreciate having either Quirk & Greenbaum's Concise
>Grammar of English, or their Grammar of English.
>
>Also, as people on this list know, I'm mighty fond of Max Morenberg's DOING
>GRAMMAR (Oxford University Press). This would be another reference for you
as
>teacher, accompanied, I'd expect by a handbook. A handbook I have liked
very
>much is DECISIONS, by .... Rosen, published out of Allyn & Bacon. Rosen is
>the director of the Harvard Expository Writing
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>But again, these would be more for your own reference, rather than for
using
>with the schoolchildren.
>
>and now, i am off for a week in North Carolina!
>
>best wishes
>
>rebecca wheeler
>
>_________________
>
>Rebecca S. Wheeler, Ph.D.
>Assistant Professor of English
>Department of English
>50 Shoe Lane
>Christopher Newport University
>Newport News, VA 23606
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