Doing Grammar

Doing Grammar, 3/e employs insights from contemporary linguistic theories and builds them into a practical and coherent system that stays firmly rooted within traditional models. Its down-to-earth explanations about how language functions are illustrated at every step with diagrams and other visual models. Focusing on the idea that students learn grammar by actually "doing grammar," Morenberg includes numerous examples and exercises that consist of real, provocative, and intelligent sentences, not desiccated grammar-book examples. This new edition features more coverage of parts of speech; updates the sentence exercises; provides more diagrams; distributes the applications of grammar to writing more evenly throughout the book; adds a glossary; and includes an appendix containing answers to all of the exercises. This practical and compact guide is invaluable for students in introductory and advanced grammar and composition courses and essential for all readers seeking to discover how language works.