Talk:English Grammar

Outline
This is the outline of the book as it was created:

--Dan Polansky (talk) 14:07, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Chapter 1. Basic Parts of Speech
 * Lesson 1. Nouns
 * Lesson 2. Pronouns
 * Lesson 3. Adjectives
 * Lesson 4. Adverbs
 * Lesson 5. Prepositions
 * Lesson 6. Verbs
 * Lesson 7. Interjections
 * Lesson 8. Conjunctions
 * Lesson 9. Determining Parts of Speech
 * Chapter 1 Review
 * Chapter 1 Test
 * Chapter 2. Subject and Predicate
 * Lesson 1. What is a Sentence
 * Lesson 2. Subject and Predicate
 * Lesson 3. Finding the Subject of a Sentence
 * Lesson 4. The Sentence as a Complete Thought
 * Lesson 5. The Predicate Nominative
 * Lesson 6. The Predicate Adjective
 * Lesson 7. Direct and Indirect Objects
 * Chapter 2 Review
 * Chapter 2 Test
 * Chapter 3. Phrases and Clauses
 * Lesson 1. Prepositional Phrases
 * Lesson 2. Phrases Used as Adjectives
 * Lesson 3. Phrases Used as Adverbs
 * Lesson 4. Participles
 * Lesson 5. Gerunds
 * Lesson 6. Infinitives
 * Lesson 7. Clauses
 * Lesson 8. Complements and Modifiers
 * Lesson 9. Sentence Structures
 * Chapter 3 Review
 * Chapter 3 Test
 * Appendices
 * Appendix A. Answers to the Exercises
 * Appendix B. Additional Grammar Resources

English grammars
As much as I remember, the content of what is now English in Use, was previously here. And I think that it should be here even now. What concerns English grammars in general, then likely there should be grammars on different levels. What likely caused the most confusion, was that only one grammar, called the English Grammar, was created at first. My perhaps naive idea is that what is now English in Use, should be Comprehensive English Grammar (for highest level), and then there also should be Beginners English Grammar, and perhaps also Advanced English Grammar or something for intermediate (B) level. And there should be no other grammars. That the English grammar was called English in Use was wrong I think, it looks like an effort to change a grammar into a (C category) learning module. I think that especially the English course for B level is a great thing and was well done. But learning modules or courses should be separate from grammars, as their content is in principle different. Complete grammars should be additional reference material to learning modules, not parts of them. But there must be complete grammars. English in Use should be changed into a C level learning module, however this may look like, when there are people interested in such high level courses. Just my thoughts. Tkorrovi (talk) 17:14, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * From what I can see, what is now "English in Use" was originally called "English", not "English Grammar". Judging from http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=English_in_Use&action=history, there were the following renamings or moves of what is now English in Use:
 * "English/English in use" was moved to "English in Use", on 8 March 2009, by Dan Polansky
 * "English" was moved to "English/English in use", on 13 May 2007, by Xania
 * For further detail, please consult the histories of the pages under discussion.
 * --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:26, 30 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Perhaps, sorry, then I didn't remember correctly. I don't remember where it started or who started it. But there is a kind of mess with grammars, there is English Grammar, English Grammar 2, English in Use, and one stub grammar for beginners. Some likely want to create some intermediate level grammar, but there is a mess with names, and also when a book is not called grammar, it is not very clear whether it is grammar. But whatever, I would eventually be satisfied with the things the way they are, when I don't edit that English in Use any more ;) Tkorrovi (talk) 07:27, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Times
Where are the explainings about the present simple & progrrasive & past etc.? Are they exist at all in Wikibooks?