Mysteries of English Grammar : A Guide to Complexities of the English Language (Paperback)

List of Tables Preface 1 Introduction 2. What you must say, what you can say and what you do not say: Grammar and norm 3. Over and out: Prepositions 4. You’ll never get nowhere: Double negatives 5. All the way from the Ukraine: The definite article 6. A large amount of exceptions: Countability 7. The author has finished this chapter last year: The present perfect 8. An even interestinger topic: Comparatives and superlatives 9. I’m lovin’ it: The progressive 10. The good, the bad and the ugly: Adjectives 11. What it is is a nonstandard feature: Double be construction 12. Human dogs and inhuman people: Gender and related matters 13. The chapter that I put too many pronouns in it: Shadow pronouns 14. There’s heaps of money to be won: Number agreement 15. Because I’m worth it: Insubordinate clauses 16. They are cleverer than she and I: Pronominal case 17. Is that your wife again: Possession 18. Conclusion Glossary: Language for language Index