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The book uses 500 real-world sentences and longer texts drawn from newspapers, film, song lyrics, online media, and a range of literary and transcribed spoken sources. Classroom tested and revised over twenty years.","American English Grammar  \nAmerican English Grammar introduces students to American English in detail, from parts of speech, phrases, and clauses to punctuation and explaining (and debunking) numerous “rules of correctness,” integrating its discussion of Standard American grammar with thorough coverage of the past sixty years’worth of work on African American English and other ethnic and regional non-Standard varieties. The book’s examples and exercises include 500 realworld sentences and longer texts, drawn from newspapers, film, song lyrics, and online media as well as from Mark Twain, Stephen King, academic texts, translations of the Bible, poetry, drama, children’s literature, and transcribed conversation and TV and radio shows. Based on twenty years of classroom testing and revision, American English Grammar will serve as a classroom text or reference that teaches students how to think and talk not only about the mechanics of sentences but also about the deep and detailed soul and nuance of the most widely used language in human history.  \nSeth R. Katz is Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of English at Bradley University, USA.  \nAmerican English Grammar  \nAn Introduction  \nSeth R. Katz  \nFirst published 2020  \nby Routledge  \n52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge  \n2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN  \nRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 Taylor & Francis  \nThe right of Seth R. Katz to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and a re used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested  \nISBN: 978-0-367-21935-2 (hbk)  \nISBN: 978-0-367-21940-6 (pbk)  \nISBN: 978-0-429-26888-5 (ebk)  \nTypeset in Times New Roman  \nby Apex CoVantage, LLC  \nVisit the [e Resources: www.routledge.com/9780367219406](e Resources: www.routledge.com/9780367219406)  \nTo my family and my students  \nContents  \nIntroduction 1  \nLanguage Variety and Grammar 1  \nThe Point of the Book 4  \nA Summary of the Book 6  \nKey Points 9  \nA Guide to Non-Standard American Varieties 9  \nAcknowledgements 13  \nCredits 13  \nAbbreviations and Conventions 16  \n1 Sentences; Parts of Speech and Their Phrases 18  \n1.1 Sentences: Subjects, Verbs, Verb Complements,  \nand Sentence Modifiers 18  \n1.2 Parts of Speech and Their Phrases 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