unsubscribe -----Original Message----- 发件人: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> 收件人: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> 日期: 1999年7月5日 20:10 主题: quirk and greenbaum > >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 >[log in to unmask] > >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 >