Word Order in English Sentences: A Complete Grammar Guide for Word Types & Structure (ELB English Learning Guides)

I wish I had purchased this book years ago, it's so informative. The exercises and examples make the concepts fall into place.

I use the book for learning English grammar.

Good logical explanations revealing the author is a teacher. I expeceted some facts about inversion .

received as described

Hi, as always, perfect.

Looking at sample available on amazon (first page) caused me to expect that the entire book would maintain the same level of analysis but I was disappointed to see it wasn't the case. Considering it is not a thick book and a lot of pages are mostly have a few lines of text, it is too pricey. A lot of care in the velvet cover and again, but not equally in its context. I bought a book on syntax after this, which carries on the type of sentence analysis that was done only in the first page. I wish amazon displayed more pages or none at all

It is a very useful book.

Excellent book for students of English.

An indispensable resource for learners and language enthusiasts seeking to master English sentence structure.

Great source for students learning English and for students who need a refresher on proper grammar rules required for writing

It is nice book beginners who interest to learn english. When i go through this book feel as better book in the market.

Prescriptive rules do not cover a number of grammatical constructions that have been widely used in standard varieties of English, and most grammar books and usage guides characterised by a decidedly descriptive approach have not addressed a number of grammatical issues either, so that students and teachers of English usually have to analyse and understand some grammatical structures that may not be supported by hard and fast rules. Hence, grammars and usage guides that provide useful information on both firm and ‘loose’ rules are very welcome. Phil Williams provided readers with very useful information on word order and sentence structure, and he did not restrict himself to describing the so-called 'rules of grammar’. In several sections of the book he discussed the flexibility of some grammatical constructions and patterns, apart from highlighting that some rules might well be regarded as ‘loose rules.’ For instance, he pointed out (section 6.4) that there might be a lot of exceptions to the grammatical rules concerning the position of adjectives, when we use several adjectives in a noun group, so that these rules would not represent ‘firm rules.’ As to genuine rules, he stated that we should put ‘not’ after the auxiliary verb in ‘I did not understand the test’, and he did not mention any flexibility in this pattern because there is no flexibility in this case: we cannot say ‘I not did understand the test’ or ‘I did understand not the test.’ In addition, the tables are very informative and self-explanatory. I believe this guide should not only help learners understand how English works in terms of word order and sentence structure, but it could also encourage learners and teachers to study or teach English in an effective and more realistic manner.

Honestly, I expected more. There are not many books on the topic - which is absolutely essential for learning the lingo. This book neglects important issues like pronouns and phrase lengths. All exercises are just about rearranging sentences. I was at that point before I got this book. But like I said, there is nothing much to be had at all for SPO (apart from hardcore linguistics), so in dubio pro reo - four stars.