Students of English realize very early on in their learning career that prepositions present a problem. They collocate with nouns. adjectives. past participles, and verbs, without rules or logic. Students simply have to learn that interested is followed by in, and good is followed by at. and go home has no preposition. Multi-word verbs, or phrasal verbs as they are often referred to, prese…
Thi s groundbreaking undergraduate textbook on modem Standard English grammar is the first to be based on the revolutionary advances of the authors' previous work, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002), winner of the 2004 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award of the Linguistic Society of America. The analyses defended there are outlined here more briefly, in an engagingly accessible and …