Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.
|
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
This is an excellent (and probably only) English-language guide to thorough Danish grammar. Very refined grammatical points are exemplified and explained in terms that even a non-linguist can understand. This thick book is neatly organized, the material is logically presented, and is hip with contemporary language and usage. |
|
36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
If you want to understand the language of Danish -- and Danes are
sticklers for grammar, both Danish and English -- then you must have
this book or a Danish nun as a teacher. The cross-cultural
equivalent of Warriner's English; everything but sentence
diagramming. Not quite Strunk & White's Elements of Style, but I
need its 600-plus pages. The terminology is "rather" British (see
"copulative conjunctions"), yet it even instructs how to properly
form colloquial sentences -- "so" colloquial that a Danish friend to
whom I had written thought I must have made a mistake because the
sentence structure I had used, as a beginner, seemed to arcanely
correct. In short, this book is outwardly dull but extremely useful. |