ABSTRACT
Grammar: A Pocket Guide covers the key areas of English grammar. It is intended to ease the adult learner into the study of the structure of English with a comfortable approach that both reassures the reader and insures a successful and rewarding experience. The perspective I take on grammar comes from my discipline, linguistics, which holds that all of us have an internalized grammatical competence: an instinctive feeling about sentence structure and what “sounds right” to us. An implicit knowledge, however, does not necessarily easily translate into explicit understanding; nor does it always give us access to the type of grammar necessary for educational and professional success.
