This new edition of the bestselling Language for Life shows how language can be mastered by children and how what they have learned can be carried throughout their lives.
This new edition of the bestselling Language for Life shows how language can be mastered by children and how what they have learned can be carried throughout their lives.
Lyn Stone is an educational linguist based in Australia. She is the owner of Lifelong Literacy, a specialist tutoring practice and teacher training institute. She and her team provide online courses and in-person coaching to educators across the globe.
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List of figures Acknowledgements Foreword How to use this book Part 1 Chapter 1 Nouns: Syntactic Royalty Chapter 2 Determiners: Noun Heralds Chapter 3 Pronouns: Syntactic Stunt Doubles Chapter 4 Verbs: The Movers and Shakers Chapter 5 Agreement Chapter 6 Tense Chapter 7 Adjectives: Descriptive Noun-Servants Chapter 8 Adverbs: The Flying Squad Chapter 9 Prepositions: Noun Connectors Chapter 10 Conjunctions: All-Round Joiners Chapter 11 Phrases Chapter 12 Clauses Chapter 13 Sentences Chapter 14 Dictionaries Chapter 15 Punctuation Chapter 16 Morphology Introduction Chapter 17 Prefixes Chapter 18 Bases Chapter 19 Suffixes Chapter 20 Figurative Language Chapter 21 Language Myths Chapter 22 Language Change Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3
