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The suggestion for this book was first put to me by Ray O'Farrell, the
publishing director at Oxford University Press, when my son Haris was
merely three months -old. A year later, I began to work on the
manuscript. Ray has since moved to another position and so has not
seen this work in its completed form, but I am very grateful to him for
initiating the project in the first place. Lisa Carroll, my publisher, has
followed this project through. Many thanks also go to her.
This book has benefited greatly from comments and criticisms from
many people. I would especially like to thank Linda Hibbs, Paul Fyffe,
Nyoman Riasa and an anonymous reviewer, who all made detailed
comments on the manuscript. My students at La Trobe University
trialed the chapters and questioned a number of points. I much
appreciate their useful suggestions. My thanks also go to those who
furnished examples or made suggestions through various discussions
on Indonesian grammar, particularly Umar Muslim, Harry Aveling, and
Peter Chamberlain. Ron Baird and Tracy Lee in the Department of Asian
Studies at La Trobe University provided much needed technical
assistance. I thank them both for their help. This book owes a great deal
of its present form to my editors, Stephen Roche and Jenny Bilos. I am
very grateful to both of them for their hard work.
Some of the ideas in this book have been inspired by other works on
grammar, in particular An A-Z of English Grammar b Usage by
Geoffrey Leech (Longman, 1,989), Grammar Practice Activities
by Penny Ur (Cambridge University Press, 1988), and Indonesian
Reference Grammar by James Sneddon (Allen & Unwin, 1996).
This book is for Haris, from whose mouth springs forth ever so
effortlessly one object-focus sentence after another.
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