The updated version of Word Order in English Sentences is now available in eBook and, for the first time, print form. Through extensive editing, and feedback from my readers, this new edition is over twice the size of the original – and looks a lot nicer!
The 1st Edition of the book was a brief introduction to sentence structure that covered the basics of some sentence components. I’ve built on it covering many more of the building blocks of a sentence – making the 2nd edition a more comprehensive guide to understanding how words fit together in English. It remains an introduction, but a much more solid one.
The full contents of the guide now cover:
- Basic sentence structure (subject-verb-object and beyond)
- Question forms
- Negative forms
- Verb phrases (now including phrasal verbs, transitives and intransitives, and combinations of verbs)
- Noun phrases (now including compound nouns, noun complements and embedded questions as noun phrases)
- Adjectives (now including adjectives in unusual positions)
- Adverbs
- Prepositions
- Sentences with multiple clauses (including simple, complex and compound sentences)
The book also includes 16 exercises to test knowledge through re-ordering scrambled sentences. The book will give you a solid basis for understanding how an English sentence fits together, and how one word relates to another – which is the first step towards understanding how sentences can then bend the rules.
Regular readers of this blog may recognise many of the lessons contained in the book – now you can own the material in one easy to use reference guide. The book is available in various electronic forms, including in PDF from the shop here. Meanwhile the print form is designed in a style that matches The English Tenses Practical Grammar Guide (so they’ll look good on a shelf together!).
