Oxford Modern English Grammar

This is an incredibly comprehensive guide to English grammar as it is used. Covers everything from the basics of sentence structure and verb use, to some really complex advanced topics. Note: The book explicitly states that this is a guide to how English is USED, not how it is supposed to be used. If you are buying a guide to make sure your writing is correct, I suggest a different book. Invaluable for learners of English.

English grammar is not easy, so if you need to learn grammar or just improve your reading/writing skills, you need a really good course or book. You need to examine a lot of different options to make a good choice, but not all of them include morphology (nor syntax) which is a basic, and today's different grammar theories make it more difficult and confusing. The Oxford Modern English Grammar doesn't miss any basics, it's easy to understand, and it clears any possible confusion as you read, so you can learn grammar without a teacher. I do recommend this book! Touchito

Very detailed and accurate. Not a comic-like version. A classical grammar book. For middle-high schoolers as well as college students.

No what I was expecting for. A lot of examples how grammar is employed in real life. But little explanations of the grammatical functions of particular words.

I had difficulties in Transformational generative grammar mainly for builiding three diagrams but i bought this grammar not for helping me at this aspect, it was bought for further Reading in fact, it is helping me to undestand the three diagram because it illustrates the class of each phrase in a sentence, buy it now...

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Stunning book!~~~ Bas Aarts outdid himself here!~ Make sure you read Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar 2nd Edition by Bas Aarts before you start reading this book!~~~^^

Don't buy the kindle version. I made that mistake and now I am stuck with it. The kindle version has issues with lists, tables, and sidebars. It doesn't show the complete pages as in a physical book which distracts from reading the actual content and makes it feel fragmented. The book has a lot of good new information but it is not readable: there is no flow. It is full of definitions, lists, etc. I recommend another advanced more readable book, "A Student's Introduction to English Grammar" by Huddleston and Pullmum. Even though it has student in the title but it is actually an advanced book based on the new Cambridge's Grammar by the same authors.

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Excellent book to start with

An excellent electronic copy of this popular Oxford Modern English Dictionary. Great search functions with Amazon's free Kindle app for both Apple and Android smartphones and Ipads. The explanations are great. Worth every penny.

Buena calidad y contenido. Cómo es de esperar de Oxford.

I never know English grammar can be dissected so organized and systematical. This book is surely not for a non native English speaker of level far from advance. In the book, very often, it will use just few sentences to explain some very important grammar usage and one also needs to be very careful in understanding the various terminologies used in order to follow the explanations and usage. I believe it will take me many years before I can assimilate most of the materials in the book.