Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Vastly Over-Rated

Much as I hate to disagree with my colleagues, I found this book to be poorly written, overly verbose and beyond dull. Common grammar terms were not used, nor was the extensive terminology adequately explained. There was no glossary and the in-text definitions were incomplete. The index was inadequate. I have taught grammar for 20+ years, and have had classes in 5 different languages. I would *never* inflict so much useless information on my own students because it would confuse them. It confused me! Normally, *nouns* are inflected and *verbs* conjugated; not here! This was especially frustrating because of the high price of the book.