Author(s) : Patrick Duffley, Ryan Fisher
ISBN : 9782897990305
Year of publication : 2018
Nombre de pages : 184
Langue : Anglais
Louis and Mr. Walters are back! Presented in the form of a Socratic dialogue like its predecessor, The Return of the Grammar Guru aims to both instruct and entertain its readers through give-and-take conversations between the Grammar Guru, a retired linguistics professor who runs a pub near the university campus, and Louis, an aspiring English teacher with an insatiable thirst for grammatical knowledge and beer. Through a series of weekly encounters with the Guru, Louis learns about:
Rather than overwhelm his listener with endless rules, the Guru makes grammar come to life by focusing on the meaning of the various grammatical forms. Also included in the book is a series of meaning-based exercises that allow readers to test their knowledge of the forms discussed in the book.
Patrick Duffley is a full-time linguistics professor at Laval University’s Faculté les lettres et sciences humaines. He has published extensively in the field of English semantics and is the author of the books The English Infinitive, The English Gerund-Participle and Sammy the Semanticist. He currently resides in Sillery, Quebec.
Ryan Fisher holds a Master's degree in Linguistics from Laval University and has taught ESL at the Cégep and university level. In addition to co-authoring The Grammar Guru and The Return of the Grammar Guru he has also contributed to the Looking Ahead series and written The Grammar Geek. He currently teaches at Cégep Garneau in Quebec City and resides in Lévis, Quebec with his family.




