CRITICAL BOOK REVIEW

A GRAMMAR OF STANDARD ENGLISH

BY: JACK E. CONNER

LECTURER: TRI INDAH REZEKI, M. Hum

REVIEWER: AKIKA NANDA NURANISA

PRODI: PBI

SEMESTER: 1 CLASS B

COURSES: STRUCTURE

BUDIDAYA TRAINING AND

EDUCATION COLLAGE
T.A 2017/2018
 CHAPTER 1

A Thing is, literally, anything. Words are the set of names we give and whatever
interests us, and they do not all make sense. Because every word concerns a meaning that may
mean or not mean. One’s logic goes so far as to create a new vocabulary that may not be all
human being can digest the meaning of the word. In attachint a word the character must tell
many things to others so that what he found also digested other people, yhe character must
also make a contradiction so that the word that he produced can be a new vocabulary. Nouns
can have 2 names or more.

a noun is a word that indicates a thing or an inanimate object that can be used as a sentence.
verbal nouns have a wide variety and have only a few universal words, and infinitive and gerund must be
made a noun by experts and experts will then consider the noun. verbal nouns are very diverse and
universally admitted to many humans. infinitive and gerund are nouns like the others.

gerund is a verbal word with ending-ing it is the distict of the intinitive. infinitive is one device
that allows us to get along without a complicated and confusing array of inflections. the verbal
component is the part that may have to be taken care of with the complement.

pronoun is a word that does not have its own lexical meaning, the idea of personal pronoun goes to the
English from the Latin grammar. (first) the person who is speaking, (second) the person who is listening,
and (third) the person or thing being discussed or being the topic. pronouns people in english in
accordance with latin pretty well but not perfect. We do have first person (I,we), second person (you),
and third person (he,she,it,they)

the peronouns with –self are something called “reflexive pronouns”, because they serve to
repeat the reference to their antecedents. When used with my- or your- or our- , the lebel reflexive is
adequate: myself and ourself are still first person pronouns, and yourself I is still a second person
pronoun. But himself, itself,herself,themselves are reflexive pronouns with an added feature: they
specify that the third person is mentioned again, and the fourth person. the article is divided into two,
namely article definite (the) and article indefinite (a, an). the difference between the two is (the) is used
to indicate the place where something is wider, while (a, an) is directly concerned with what is spoken or
the subject matter discussed.