ABSTRACT

Readers familiar with the revised edition of Write in Style might assume that this Glossary is merely a duplication of the one that appears there. It is not. That incarnation included a profusion of literary terms, many of which I’ve omitted here on the grounds that they have no direct bearing on grammar as such. In addition, I have added a comparably substantial number of linguistic and grammatical terms that do not appear in that companion volume. As before, I have drawn in part on the ‘Glossary of Terms’ listed in the National Literacy Strategy Framework for Teaching (1998), but in the main the annotation and examples are my own, as are a significant number of the entries themselves.