��� Analyzing the Grammar of English offers a descriptive analysis of the indispensable elements of English grammar. Designed to be covered in one semester, this textbook starts from scratch and takes nothing for granted beyond a reading and speaking knowledge of English. Extensively revised to function better in skills-building classes, it includes more interspersed exercises that promptly test what is taught, simplified and clarified explanations, greatly expanded and more diverse activities, and a new glossary of over 200 technical terms. This Third Edition is the only English grammar to view the sentence as a strictly punctuational construct--anything that begins with a capital letter and ends with a period, a question mark, an exclamation mark, or three dots--rather than a syntactic one, and to load, in consequence, all the necessary syntactic analysis onto the clause and its constituents..