"Navigating English Grammar is a suberb introduction to English grammar and grammatical analysis. Lobeck and Denham guide readers through the essentials of English with vivid, up-to-date examples and just the right amount of claerly explained linguistic theory." - Edwin Battistella, Southern Oregon University
"Lobeck and Denham make a plausible Socrates, prodding their interlocutors into discovering their own internal language systems. Readers learn much about scientific methods, honed by years working in schools and understanding adolescent minds, and are liberated from foolish social judgements about people's language." - David Lightfoot, Georgetown University
The inquiry-based approach employed by Lobeck and Denham encourages readers to discover the basic categories and organizing principles of grammar by exploring their own intuitive knowledge of language. Rather than rule memorization, focus is on development of a set of tools to analyze language in its many representations. Throughout, the authors highlight how grammatical rules change over time, how they vary across speech communities, and how oral language differs from written language.
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