English for the Natives: Discover the Grammar You Don't Know You Know
By Harry Ritchie.
Description
My first English lesson was grammar with the terrifying Mrs Petrie. She spent the entire time marching up and down the classroom, thwacking various items of school furniture with a ruler while she banged on about the ING part of the verb. I sat there, vibrating with fear, desperately trying to figure out w hat on earth she could mean. Irregular Negative Gerund? Intransitive Nominative Genitive? It w as only years later, when I was teaching English to foreign students, that I realised that English grammar wasn't obscure and wilfully difficult but a fascinating subject which I was alread...
ISBN(s)
1848548397, 9781848548398
