Making knowledge about language more accessible, to support constructive, learner-friendly education about this amazing phenomenon

BOOK

  • A step-by-step guide to sentence construction
  • Explaining how grammar works, not just definitions and rules
  • Essential language patterns for writing, reading comprehension and growing language mastery
  • A reference guide for teachers (and general readers)

This book presents a new picture of grammar for learning and teaching. It shows what grammar is. It demonstrates common grammatical patterns with multiple examples and explains them in terms of both structure (syntax) and meaning. Its simple, practical new framework makes grammar make sense. This is a positive view of the power of grammar as possibility in language.

  • Form and meaning working together, rather than ‘different grammars’, as a place to start
  • A developmental approach correlated to school curriculum (primary and secondary) and linked to practical language use
  • Comprehensive content, with simple explanations suitable for use with young learners.