Making Sense Of English

GRAMMAR, PHONETICS AND USAGE – ALL IN ONE BOOK Making Sense of English is a textbook designed to help students and teachers of English learn about the English language, its sounds, words and grammar. It deals with all the major topics in the syllabuses of the courses on English language for BA and M.A. English and teacher development and training programmes. It introduces and describes with plenty of examples the important phonological, lexical and grammatical features of English to help the readers acquire an understanding of the structure and usage of English. The book has 24 chapters grouped into three parts, each ending with a chapter summary. The exercises help readers recap what they have learnt in the chapter and give them opportunities to apply it to actual instances of the use of English. Though designed for students and teachers of English, the book would also be useful to writers and editors who desire a deeper understanding of how English works as a language. About Author: M. A. Yadugiri, formerly Professor of English, Bangalore University, has a Ph.D. in linguistics-stylistics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She has taught courses on general linguistics and the structure of English, modern English structure and usage, modern linguistics, and stylistics in the postgraduate department of Bangalore University for more than 20 years and has guided several M.Phil and Ph.D. students in the areas of English linguistics, English for Specific Purposes, and stylistics. As Longman Fellow in the English Language, she has taught and researched at the University of London. Yadugiri has also researched in the area of English for Specific Purposes at the English Language Institute, University of Michigan.