AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR BOOK AGAIN?

There are grammars and grammars of English. Any justification for one more - this English Grammar in its True Light (EGTL)?

UNIQUE?

Yes, both in content and in form.

DIFFICULT?

Yes and No.
Yes, for the students who have learned English grammar from grammar books and from schools and colleges and for teachers (excuse!) who have taught grammar relying on existing grammar books. No, for those who know nothing of English grammar, but are willing to learn it.

WHY DIFFICULT?

Those who have learned either traditional or modern grammar or both are likely to get a shock from EGTL as it shows many of the conventional, established rules and explanations are really myths. TRUTH IS BITTER. It is really difficult to get out of the ruts of stereotypes. Of course, nothing can be done it one’s mind is fossilised.

OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLE?

Umpteen number of English grammars have appeared in India and abroad claiming to be ‘New’, ‘Modern’, ‘Current’, ‘Real’ and the like as seen from their titles. What is new is only the bottle. Grammars appear in new forms in their presentation mainly owing to the vogue in Communicative Approach in language teaching. Well and good. The writers of these grammars have blithely ignored the findings in Applied Linguistics during the last seventy years, their interest being only to attract the consumers with colourful pictures and digitally aided typographical gimmicks. As regards the content therein, all of them are copies of some grammars published earlier. Their writers are clever enough to avoid any risk of anything nonconventional being rejected by the consumers.

NEW WINE IN NEW BOTTLE?

This is what EGTL is. It is entirely new in both its content and its form.