There are definitely a whole lot more publishers now. (Textbooks in India are bigger than other forms of publishing.) I am not sure if S Chand is as big it once was. Ouch! Why did they even bother? All of these so-called determiners are just adjectives!Īnyway, S Chand says it is the oldest and biggest publisher of educational books in India. In the Oxford grammar book, interjections have been eliminated, and articles and other forms of adjectives have subsumed in to what are called as determiners. That’s fine because they also describe a noun just like other adjectives. In the W&M, (at least it seems to be now that) articles are part of adjectives. In my CBSE high school grammar book, there were 9 parts of speech and they began with the articles a and an. Even before they got rid of this ghost, it was periodically harmed by hysteria such as agile, stack ranking, frameworks, and other common-sense alternatives. It is only in recent times that people have realized that the whole thing was stupid and a waste of everyone’s time.
This was adopted by industry without question and for years experienced project managers were denied jobs because they did not have training or experience in SEI-CMMM. Those morons came out with SEI CMM (Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model). These inefficient and corrupt fools then bypassed the whole issue by asking Carnegie Mellon University for a solution.
#Wren and martin english grammar book cost in india software#
One of their studies revealed that 50% of their software projects were never delivered and one-third of delivered projects were never used. They obtained a permanent place in management books by famously ordering toilet seats for $600 per piece. The US Department of Defense would call a pencil as “portable handheld graphite communications inscriber”. Oxford grammar seems to be an example of the control-freak mentality that has ruined several disciplines. The Oxford grammar book bears no resemblance to the grammar used in Indian school textbooks. (The Dondo book also has a “key” book for its exercises.) I did not buy the Key to HSEG&C but it is available.
The paper quality (recycled) is not as good as it was IN THOSE DAYS but the color illustrations were a surprise. There are now two editions – one illustrated and the other is not. S Chand had made several revisions to the original text. My friends also bought the key to the book and it was useful to cross-check our answers! Even though I was surprised they would spend actual money to buy a grammar book, I found the book worthwhile before exams as it had more grammar exercises than the one prescribed by our school syllabus. When I was in school, I never owned one but my friends used it. It is like Dondo Moden French Course, which is a humble textbook published by Oxford University Press and used all over the world to learn/teach French for over a century. This is a book that has been in use for several decades by students of English in India and other British colonies. So, I went and bought a copy of the venerable-old Wren and Martin “High School English Grammar & Composition” today. My new Oxford grammar book was of no help.
That’s how state board books in India start with English grammar. It all started with the question what a subject and a predicate were. Oxford grammar has dropped interjections from parts of speech! Have Britons really become a nation of drunks in permanent stupor-hangover, as some news reports allege?
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