Description
Book SynopsisThe Grammar Book introduces teachers and future teachers to English grammatical constructions. This highly acclaimed text, used both as a course book and as a grammar reference guide, is suitable for all teachers of English. What sets it apart from other grammar books is its unique pedagogical focus: It describes not only how each grammatical construction is formed, but also its meaning and its use. Grammar is seen to be a resource for making meaning in textually and socially appropriate ways.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - Grammatical Terminology Chapter 3 - Lexicogrammar Chapter 4 - Copular Verbs and Subject-Verb Agreement Chapter 5 - Word Order and the Phrase Structure Rules for the Subject of a Sentence Chapter 6 - More Phrase Structure Rules: The Predicate of a Sentence Chapter 7 - The Tense-Aspect System Chapter 8 - Modal Auxiliaries and Related Phrasal Forms Chapter 9 - The Tense-Aspect-Modality System in Discourse Chapter 10 - Negation Chapter 11 - Yes/No Questions Chapter 12 - Imperatives Chapter 13 - Wh-Questions Chapter 14 - Tag, Alternative, Exclamatory, and Rhetorical Questions Chapter 15 - Articles Chapter 16 - Reference and Possession Chapter 17 - Partitives, Collectives, and Quantifiers Chapter 18 - The Passive Voice Chapter 19 - Sentences with Indirect Objects Chapter 20 - Adjectives Chapter 21 - Prepositions Chapter 22 - Phrasal Verbs Chapter 23 - Nonreferential Subjects: Ambient It and Existential There Chapter 24 - Conjunction Chapter 25 - Adverbials Chapter 26 - Logical Connectors Chapter 27 - Conditionals Chapter 28 - Introduction to Relative Clauses Chapter 29 - More on Relative Clauses: Nonrestrictive and Relative Adverb Clauses Chapter 30 - Focus and Emphasis Chapter 31 - Complementation Chapter 32 - Other Aspects of Complementation Chapter 33 - Reported Speech and Writing Chapter 34 - Degree - Comparatives and Equatives Chapter 35 - Degree - Complementations and Superlatives Chapter 36 - Conculsion Suggested Answers to Chapter Exercises Indexes: Index of Names Index of Languages and Language Groups Index of Words, Phrases, and Affixes Index of Topics
