The author, Professor Liu Meijun, explained "what is grammar" and "why grammar is like this" in a different way, getting rid of the relationship between grammar and rote memorization, and linking grammar and communication, so that you can understand why, so as to remember it thoroughly.
In other words, this book does not intend to systematically sort out grammar like traditional grammar books and then make you memorize by rote, but intends to take out some classic grammar phenomena separately and talk about what is behind them, so that you can "know what they are, and why they are true"
Many children's shoes will have the confusion of "why" when they look through grammar books, that is, why this grammar is the way it is? I have also turned over a lot of grammar books, and this book may be the best explanation on the topic of "why"!
For example, an important feature of English grammar is that the focus is on the front and the background at the back.
In Chinese, the narrative is the opposite: first talk about the background, and then slowly unfold the main point.
This "truth" can explain the grammatical phenomena of many sentences:
Like what
[a person] who works hard
Hard-working [people]
[the book] that I bought yesterday
[That book] I bought yesterday
[Extreme poverty will disappear] if a global effort is undertaken.
If the whole world works together, extreme poverty will disappear
3 typical examples, Chinese is always the background first, English is the focus first; understand this "truth", understand why, and then choose words and sentences to understand how to reasonably arrange the structure of English sentences!
This book also cleverly gives the same grammar knowledge point, arranging "basic and advanced", if it is a weak foundation of children's shoes, you can choose to read the basic article, popular and interesting.
If you have spare time to learn, you can quickly jump to the advanced chapter when the foundation is OK.
The advanced article is followed by the practice questions, this piece is the consolidation exercise, the question type is more abundant, there are multiple choice questions, gram and missing words, Chinese-English translation comparison, verb doppelganger check, etc., all of which are based on real English materials.
As if I'm afraid that you don't have enough in-depth understanding of the book, Professor Liu Meijun also has a video of the scene to watch, closely follow the content of the book, it is recommended to read it together with the book, which is much more efficient!
Summary:
The book "English Grammar Makes Sense" is very innovative, you can learn 10 subversive grammatical concepts, as well as many grammar knowledge points "behind the truth", solve your confusion about grammar in the past, and update your understanding of grammar~
If you want to learn grammar with low difficulty, or encounter a bottleneck in learning grammar, or really learn grammar, you can try to explore the inner logic of grammar, try this English grammar book, and strongly recommend it~
PS: This book is not published in China, so there are only traditional characters, but it does not affect reading, they are all commonly used words;
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