A Glossary of English Grammar presents a wide range of terms used to describe the way the English language is structured. Grammatical terms can be a problem for students, especially when there are alternative names for the same thing (for example, 'past tense' and 'preterite'). This book therefore provides a basic and accessible guide, focusing on the English language. Definitions of grammatical terms are given in simple language, with clear examples, many from authentic texts and spoken sources, showing how they are used. The terms used in the Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language are widely seen as standard, and form the basis of grammatical terminology in this book. At the same time, this glossary does not neglect other variants of English grammar, such as that of Huddleston and Pullum's influential Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, whose most important terms are also covered here. This book is indispensable for anyone wishing to understand present-day terminology of English grammar more fully.

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Colloquial Danish consists of eighteen units, each containing about ninety new words. Each unit is built around a series of smaller units including texts, dialogues, explanatory language points and exercises. On pages x–xiv there is a brief pronunciation guide, a review of the main language points, a key to exercises and English–Danish and Danish–English glossaries. Below, we explain the aim of the various units and the best way of working with them. If you want to derive maximum benefit from the book, we suggest you do not skip this introduction!

I am grateful to Morgunblaðið, Talnakönnun (formerly Nesútgáfan), DV and Tímarit Reykjavík for permission to use various extracts and articles, to Ferðaskrifstofan Nonni to use their advertisement, to Jón Gíslason and Sigríður þorvaldsdóttir to use excerpts from their book Landsteinar, to Gerður Kristný and Elísabet Þorgeirsdóttir to use excerpts from their articles, to Hótel Borg for permission to print their menu. Warmest thanks are extended to my generous and patient Icelandic friends Árni þór Eymundsson, Katrín Eymundsdóttir and Antonía Sveinsdóttir, who were kind enough to read and correct the manuscript during its various stages, fielded my many questions and contributed valuable insights. Thanks also go to the friendly and helpful staff at Routledge, especially to Gary King whose encouragement and assistance during the early writing stages were important. Final thanks to Wil Neijmann, who passed on to me his love of languages and the joy of language learning, and, as always, to Mark, for his patience and love. Every effort has been made to obtain permission to reproduce copyright material. If any proper acknowledgement has not been made, or permission not received, we would invite copyright holders to inform us of the oversight.

Colloquial Lithuanian is easy to use and completely up-to-date! Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Lithuanian. No prior knowledge of the language is required. What makes Colloquial Lithuanian your best choice in personal language learning? Interactive – lots of exercises for regular practice. Clear – concise grammar notes. Practical – useful vocabulary and pronunciation guide. Complete – including answer key and reference section. By the end of this rewarding course, you will be able to communicate confidently and effectively in Lithuanian in a broad range of everyday situations.

Although English as a global language did not appear until 1997, it was actually written in 1995, which in 2002 seems a very long time ago, as far as global linguistic developments are concerned. The 1990s were a revolutionary decade, in that respect, with a proliferation of new linguistic varieties arising out of the worldwide implementation of the Internet, an emerging awareness of the crisis affecting the world’s endangered languages, and an increasingly public recognition of the global position of English. Academic publications relating to this last topic seriously increased in number and weight. The largely article-driven literature of previous decades had typically been exploratory and programmatic, restricted to individual situations, anecdotal in illustration, lacking a sociolinguistic frame of reference, and focusing on the written (and usually literary) language. By contrast, the 1990s saw the emergence of a more comprehensive perspective in which spoken varieties became prominent, there was a real increase in the amount of descriptive data, and attempts were made to arrive at explanations and to make predictions of an appropriately general and sociolinguistically informed character.

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