A Concise English Grammar for Foreign Students [antikvár]

PREFACE In this book an attempt has been made to give concisely all the essentials of English grammar, and though it is hoped that the English student may profit from its pages, the main purpose in the writer's mind has been to approach the subject from the standpoint of the foreign student learning English. For that reason those parts of grammar, e.g. the preposition, in which foreign students find many difficulties, have been given considerably fuller treatment than is usual in a book for English students only. It will be found, too, that the mistakes in the sentences given (in Appendix I) for correction, are such as English students would not generally make, but all the sentences there were actually written by foreign students in my classes, in exercises and compositions, and are therefore practical illustrations oí the errors to which the foreign student is naturally prone. The examination papers in Appendix II are printed by the kind permission of the National Union of Teachers at whose examinations in English for Foreigners they have previously been set. The nomenclature used is that recommended by the Joint Committee on Grammatical Terminology. C.E.E.