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The author explains structure and then shows how it works in different language contexts - the literary, the non-literary, the spoken and the written. He explor
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Making Sense of English is a textbook designed to help students and teachers of English learn about the English language, its sounds, words and grammar. It deal
Making Sense of Japanese Grammar explains in a lively and highly informative manner basic principles that underlie a wide range of phenomena in Japanese. Studen