Description
Oxford University Press Eastwood's "Oxford Guide to English Grammar" takes a more functional approach to grammar than some books. It is a good book to use in conjunction with some others, such as Practical English Usage: Hardcover. The chapters that Eastwood breaks his book into are as follows: 1. Sentence and Text 2. Verb Forms 3. Infinitive, Gerund and Participles 4. The Noun Phrase 5. Adjectives, Adverbs and Prepositions 6. Main clauses and Sub-clauses 7. Word Forms Each section is fairly extensive and gives a good deal of information for most teaching purposes in the language classroom. They have a huge range of topics within each including articles, quantifiers, adverbial clauses, conditional clauses and the list goes on and on. The examples given are well-chosen, though these sub-sections seem to lack some of the extensiveness that other books suffer from. However, I think it is more than enough for most practical purposes.