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
Biography
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.
'The hallmark of Lyn Stone’s writing and presentations is her understanding of her audience and their needs. This new edition of Language for Life builds on the strong foundations laid by its predecessor and will make it even easier for teachers to overcome the daunting burden of having to teach concepts which in the majority of cases, they did not learn themselves, either at school or at university. Lyn understands what teachers need to understand and tells the story of language and its idiosyncrasies in ways that will boost teacher capacity, and ultimately, student achievement.'
Professor Pamela Snow, La Trobe University, Australia
