CRITICAL BOOK REVIEW

INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH SENTENCE STRUCTURE

Johannes Jefria Gultom, SPd., M.Hum

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NAME : TESALONIKA EDALINTA BR. PINEM

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COURSES : ENGLISH GRAMMAR

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS

STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN

2018
 CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

Book 1
This book is intended for students in colleges or universities. It contains exercises and
a wealth of other features, and will provide a basis for introductions to grammar and courses
on the structure of English no only in linguistics department but also in English language and
literature departments.

Students will achieve an accurate understanding of grammar that will both enchance
their language skills and provide a solid grounding for further linguistics study. The exercises
are important for academic students and a useful aid to an overall understanding of the
grammatical system.

BOOK IDENTITY

BOOK I

Tittle : Introduction to English Sentence Structure

(Chapter 2 : Inverted Sentence)

Author : Johannes Jefria Gultom, SPd., M.Hum

Publisher : Unimed Press

Year of Publish : Juli 2014

ISBN : 978-602-1313-15-2

Pages : 162 pages (Chapter 2: 5 pages)

Edition :I
BOOK 2

This book has most of the practice section in the Grammar and Vocabulary section
reflect such changes, and where texts are retained from the first edition, they have been given
more of an exam focus.

However, the core of this highly successful book remains the same. The grammar
section now includes some additional revision and more subtle advanced points. Unit on
phrasal verbs, prepositions and linking devices are also included. The grammatical
information provided can be used for reference when, needed, or worked through
systematically.

The vocabulary section includes topic-based vocabulary, collocations, and idiomatics

phrases. It also recycles work on prepositions, and phrasal Verbs.

BOOK IDENTITY

Tittle : Advanced Language Practice

(Chapter 13: Inversion)

Author : Michael Vince and Peter Sunderland

Publisher : MACMILLAN

Year of Publish : 2003

ISBN : 1 405 00762 1

Pages : 336 pages (Chapter 13: 7pages)

Edition :
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SUMMARY

BOOK I

Chapter II

Inverted Sentences

A. Introduction
Inverted sentences do not play any significant role in technical or business
writing because their structure makes ther very conspicuous. You may construct
inverted sentences by rearranging the normal sequence of English sentence.
Here the example of inverted sentences
Normal-order sentence:
“You should try to visit Calgary more often”
Inverted sentence :
“To visit Calgary more often you should try.”

You can usually recognize an inverted sentence by the amount of detail that is
presented before the verb. So if you encounter such a sentence, intensify your efforts
in identifying subjects and verbs.
The verb is usually near the end of the sentence, and the subject generally
follows closely after the verb.

B. The Occurrence
Inversion means the verb is placed before the subject for emphasis. It occurs:
a. In questions
b. In question tags
c. After “so, neither/nor, as”
d. In exclamation
e. After adverbs of place/direction
f. After verbs of reporting
g. In “there be” structure
h. In emphatic sentences with a negative word or idea
i. In adverbial expressions placed at the beginning
j. With “should, were, had” in conditionals when “if” is omitted.

C. Execises
BOOK II

Chapter 13

Inversion

The term inversion covers two different grammatical operations.

1. Using a question form of the main verb

2. Changing the normal positions of verb and subject
3. This only occurs when the adverbial occurs at the beginning of a clause.
4. Time expressions : never, rarely, seldom
5. Time expressions : hardly, barely, scarcely, no sooner
6. After only
7. Phrase s containing no/not
8. Little
9. This occurs with so and adjectives when the main verb is be.
10. Such used with be means so much/so great
11. As in the examples with such, inversion only occurs if so/such is the first word in the
clause.
12. Three types of If- sentence can be inverted without If-.
13. Inversion after as
14. Inversio n after so , neither and nor

And also the example of each of that kind above

There are also practice or exercise of that them

 CHAPTER III

THE STRENGTH AND THE WEAKNESS

1. THE STRENGTH

BOOK I

The strength of this book is the type of the font is good so it makes the reader easily
read the book. Also the material of the book good. In this report, will critic the second chapter,
that inverted sentence. The chapter contains the explaining about the theme and also the kind
of the inverted sentence. The writer explain the topic with using the language like he speak
directly with the reader.

BOOK II

The strength of book II is it has good identity, such as ISBN, publisher, year of publish,
etc. Book II is interesting for reader because it easy to understand and also have more exercise.
And also book II has more explaining about the topic

2. THE WEAKNESS

BOOK I

The weakness from the book especially the chapter is it isn’t explain clearly. The
inverted sentence has not much explaining, so it makes the reader hard to understand about
the inverted sentence. And also the chapter should has more exercise.

BOOK II

The weakness of book two is it has a typo or error sentence in that book. And there is
no author’s biography and the summary.
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ANALYSIS RESULT

The analysis result of book I and book II is they have their strength and also their
weakness. Such as the first book only have a little explanation about the topic so the readers
can not understand about the topic easily. While the second book has more clearly
explanation about the topic so the reader can easily understand the topic. The first book use
easily language in its explaining. But the second book is using more formal language than
first book.

The first book has a little exercise, so the reader do not satisfied yet. But the second
book has more exercise so the reader can test their ability with that exercise. But, the second
book has no summary of that topic and also has error sentence. So the publisher or the writer
should check the book again.

CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION
In critical book review, i get a new knowledge which is I can conclude that is every
book has its strength and also weakness. There is no a perfect book. For the suggestion, the
book should has more exercise and also has more explanation about the topic. So the reader
can understand what the writer want to tell the reader.