
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">An understanding of grammar enables us to
see how language works and how to use it in the right ways. This clear,
succinct, and up-to-date dictionary, which covers virtually every significant
grammatical term, is ideal for teachers, students, and anyone who wants to write
correctly (without sounding old-fashioned or fussily pedantic). Gives crisp,
practical definitions of all the central concepts and their application: from
abstract nouns and adverbs to word order and yes-no question Offers authoritative
guidance through the minefield of more technical terms (and those mainly applicable
to other languages): accusative, attraction, backshift, common gender, dummy</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Provides extensive coverage of recent
innovations and the ideas introduced by leading scholars such as Noam Chomsky
and Randolph Quirk: complement clause, noun phrase, subject raising Includes
lively examples of current usage.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">About
the Author </span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">R.L.
Trask </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">was born on 10 November 1944, in Olean, New
York, United States. He was an American–British professor of linguistics at the
University of Sussex, and an authority on the Basque language and the field of
historical linguistics. He received his doctorate in linguistics from the
University of London, and thereafter taught at various universities in the
United Kingdom. He died on 27 March 2004, in Brighton, United Kingdom.</span></p>

