The Structure of English for Readers, Writers, and Teachers

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Summary: Nice Support.
Review: THE STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH FOR READERS, WRITERS, AND TEACHERS is a textbook that we used in my grammatical ananlysis class. The book is written in a style that is very informal and general, which is much different than many other textbooks, especially those relating to linguistics and grammar. Nevertheless, the book does lack a great deal of substance and therefore doesn't work well on it's own. On the other hand, the book contains a great many helpful exercises prinkled throughout each chapter instead of just at the end of the chapter. The book also does a really good job of explaining and illustrating the auxiliary class that has developed in the English language. With that said, though THE STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH FOR READERS, WRITERS, AND TEACHERS doesn't stand on it's own very well, it makes a very useful supplementary book to other grammatical textbooks.