<p><i>Analyzing the Grammar of English</i> offers a descriptive analysis of the indispensable elements of English grammar. Designed to be covered in one semester, this textbook starts from scratch and takes nothing for granted beyond a reading and speaking knowledge of English. Extensively revised to function better in skills-building classes, it includes more interspersed exercises that promptly test what is taught, simplified and clarified explanations, greatly expanded and more diverse activities, and a new glossary of over 200 technical terms.</p><p><i>Analyzing the Grammar of English </i>is the only English grammar to view the sentence as a strictly punctuational construct -- anything that begins with a capital letter and ends with a period, a question mark, an exclamation mark, or three dots -- rather than a syntactic one, and to load, in consequence, all the necessary syntactic analysis onto the clause and its constituents.</p><p>It is also one of the very few English grammars to include -- alongside multiple examples of canonical or &quot;standard&quot; language -- occasional samples of stigmatized speech to illustrate grammar points.</p><p>Students and teachers in courses of English grammatical analysis, English teaching methods, TESOL methods, and developmental English will all benefit from this new edition.</p>