grammar

The Grammar Book: An ESL/EFL Teacher's Course is more than a book of grammar rules and instructions for using them, it is an actual course for ESL/EFL teachers. The authors have attempted to provide in a systematic manner information that is the most useful for the ESL/EFL teacher. It is a comprehensive work that was written "in the hope that it will enable prospective and practicing teachers of English as a second or foreign language to better understand the grammar of the language they have chosen to teach," (Celce-Murcia and Larsen-Freeman, v). The introduction outlines what the authors expect a well-trained teacher of English to other languages to know. They must have a good command language teaching methodology and they need to be familiar with materials that are available in order to select the most optimum textbooks or prepare materials of their own. The well-trained teacher must also offer a good linguistic model and ideally would be a native speaker of English. The final requirements is that a well-trained teacher has done his or her homework. In other words, they know their subject matter. The teacher must "have conscious knowledge of the rules of the English language: the sound system, the grammatical system, the lexical system, and the discourse structure," (Celce-Murcia, 1). The focus of the book at hand is on the grammatical system. The book is too comprehensive in scope and broa