{"id":162,"date":"2009-02-13T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=162"},"modified":"2009-02-13T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T10:00:08","slug":"swedish-%e2%80%93-an-essential-grammar-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/swedish-%e2%80%93-an-essential-grammar-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Swedish \u2013 An Essential Grammar&#8221; &#8211; book review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2009\/02\/swe-grammar-book.jpg\" aria-label=\"Swe Grammar Book\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-163\"  alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"319\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2009\/02\/swe-grammar-book.jpg\"><\/a>&#8220;Swedish \u2013 An Essential Grammar&#8221;<br \/>\nAuthors: Philip Holmes and Ian Hinchliffe<br \/>\nPublished by Routledge<br \/>\nISBN: 0-415-16048-0<\/p>\n<p>I totally forgot I had this book. Yesterday I was cleaning out some stuff and whoops, it just fell out of the box and hit me on the head.<\/p>\n<p>I think I packed it away because once upon a time I really didn\u2019t care for it all that much. What turned me off was the language in this book. It\u2019s highly specialized. You need to really know your grammar and grammatical terms to make sense of the explanations in this volume. Otherwise you\u2019ll be stuck trying to make sense of such sentences:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cSome indeclinable adjectives may be used either attributively or predicatively.\u201d<\/em> Or<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Often the separated forms are concrete and the integral forms abstract in meaning.\u201d <\/em>Yeah, like, totally.<\/p>\n<p>But I guess in the last few years my tolerance for this sort of language has dramatically increased (living in Sweden will do that to you) and this morning I\u2019ve started to read this book again. And I have to say that despite the sometimes tedious explanations, this is a wholly excellent book.<\/p>\n<p>True, sometimes you may need someone to explain things to you using simple words shorter than three syllables. But apart from that, this is a great Swedish grammatical reference.<\/p>\n<p>It covers everything that needs to be covered, it\u2019s very well organized (always a plus in a grammar book) and gives you more examples of the stuff it explains than you\u2019ll ever need.<\/p>\n<p>In short: to buy or not to buy? Definitely \u2013 to buy.<br \/>\nTwo thumbs up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"220\" height=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2009\/02\/swe-grammar-book.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>&#8220;Swedish \u2013 An Essential Grammar&#8221; Authors: Philip Holmes and Ian Hinchliffe Published by Routledge ISBN: 0-415-16048-0 I totally forgot I had this book. Yesterday I was cleaning out some stuff and whoops, it just fell out of the box and hit me on the head. 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