ENGLISH FOR THE NATIVES: DISCOVER THE GRAMMAR YOU DON’T KNOW YOU KNOW
Book ID/图书代码： 06400013B66453
English Summary/英文概要： Discover the grammar you already know with this perfect Christmas gift.
’My first English lesson was grammar with the terrifying Mrs Petrie. She spent the entire time marching up and down the classroom, thwacking various items of school furniture with a ruler while she banged on about the ING part of the verb. I sat there, vibrating with fear, desperately trying to figure out what on earth she could mean. Irregular Negative Gerund? Intransitive Nominative Genitive? It was only years later, when I was teaching English to foreign students, that I realised that English grammar wasn’t obscure and wilfully difficult but a fascinating subject which I was already brilliant at - and this book will prove that you are too.’
Forget the little you think you know about English grammar and start afresh with this highly entertaining and accessible guide. English for the Natives outlines the rules and structures of our language as they are taught to foreign students - and have never before been explained to us. Harry Ritchie also examines the grammar of dialects as well as standard English and shows how non-standard forms are just as valid.
With examples from a wide variety of sources, from Ali G to John Betjeman, Margaret Thatcher to Match of the Day, this essential book reveals some surprising truths about our language and teaches you all the things you didn’t know you knew about grammar.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 用这本完美的圣诞礼物之书帮助你去再次发掘那些你早已再熟悉不过的语法。
“犹记得我所上的第一节英文课便是语法课，我们的老师是有点让人害怕的佩特里夫人。整堂课的过程中，她在教室的每一个角落里徘徊，用一把尺子敲击着学校配备的各式各样的教学设施，而当时，她正讲授着动词的现在进行时（ING）形式。当年我坐在位置上害怕的瑟瑟发抖，绝望地想要弄清楚她到底意味着什么。不规则动词？不及物动词？直到很多年后，我也开始教授外国人英语时，我才意识到原来英语语法并非模糊不清且让人感觉晦涩难懂，相反地，它是一门极具吸引力的学科，这门学科是我一度极为擅长的，而借助于本书的佐证，我也将让你们认识到，你们也可以学得很好。”
忘记你曾经学习的有关于英语语法的皮毛知识，让我们跟着这本极为有趣易学的指南，开始英语语法的全新学习之旅。《地道英语》将向学习英语的外语学习者们详细地描述有关于英语的规则与结构---这些规则与结构都从未被详细地阐释过。在对标准英语进行论证的同时，哈利•里奇同样还对各类方言的语法规则进行检验，从而让我们认识到非标准形式的英语很多时候也是合乎逻辑与法则的。
书中涵盖了大量的案例说明且来源极为广泛，从Ali G 到约翰•贝杰曼，从玛格丽特•撒切尔到英超《比赛日》，这本小书将为你揭示有关于我们语言的惊奇之处，并帮助你更清楚的认识自己，认识英语语法。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：一本极其有趣的图书，书中满是见解、神韵以及犀利的笑话。而在这一切的背后则是充满着生机与活力的语言和她的影响力，正是她们使得这部书成为了一本权威之作。 (《每日邮报》)
有关于词汇、语法与语言的书籍每年会新诞生多少？然而，哈利•里奇的这部作品却凭借其犀利之处、美好的意图、语言学本身的生机与活力以及幽默感一举超越了众多的平庸之作。(马科斯•博克曼，《观察家报》)
在词汇书籍的浩渺世界里，本书无疑是最终的权威之作，叫人欣喜不已。语言学对其所产生过深刻的影响，因此有关于“固有观念派”（乔姆斯基）和“其他”派别（保卫派）间的独特论战将十分精彩。
A hugely entertaining read, full of attitude and verve and sharp running jokes. And underneath all this lies rigorous linguistic heft, which gives the book real authority (Daily Mail)
How many new books are there about words, grammar and language? Nonetheless, Harry Ritchie’s English for the Natives leaps to the top of the pile for its sharp, good sense, linguistic rigour [and] sense of humour (Marcus Berkmann, The Spectator)
On the pleasantly scholarly end of the word book spectrum. Informed by linguistics, it has a particularly good discussion of the controversy between "innatists" (following Chomsky) and others (Guardian)
About the Author/作者介绍： 哈利•里奇曾于《星期日泰晤士报》担任文学编辑，并著有五部作品，包括《成功故事》，一部分析20世纪50年代的英语文坛状况的作品，以及《最后的粉点》，记录了英属殖民地的游历之旅。作者出生于柯卡尔迪，曾于爱丁堡大学、林肯学院及牛津大学就读，作者现居伦敦。
Harry Ritchie is a former literary editor of the Sunday Times and is the author of five previous books including Success Stories, an analysis of the English literary scene of the 1950s, and The Last Pink Bits, a tour of Britain’s remaining colonies. He was born in Kirkcaldy, was educated at Edinburgh University and Lincoln College, Oxford, and now lives in London.
Format:HARDCOVER
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：
原文第一章内容：暂无
手稿：暂无
大纲：暂无