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Title: Disappointment.
Review: This book was a huge disappointment. Morenberg assumes that the reader knows the basic rules, when in deed, this is meant to be a basic grammar book. He fails to mention the well used exceptions when doing a sub-par job of explaining grammar. This book may be called "Doing Grammar" but most of it is impermeable even for those who have been studying the subject for years.His persistent use of differing lexical categories -- he often makes up his own -- which don't harmonize with contemporary categories just makes matter more complicated.A excellent Grammar Book is " A Student's Introduction to English Grammar" by Huddleston and Pullum. I bought this book a year before buying Doing Grammar and it's great. Very comprehensive and with multiple examples and in-depth definitions and application!I would not recommend Doing Grammar to anyone and would have given it 0 stars if I could.
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