Understanding English Grammar
ISBN: 9780205626908 | 0205626904
Edition: 8thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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This market-leading text for grammar courses is a comprehensive description of sentence structure that encourages students to recognize and use their innate language expertise as they study the systematic nature of sentence grammar. A practical blend of the most useful elements of both traditional and new linguistic grammar, the text emphasizes whole structures, most specifically the ten basic sentence patterns introduced in Chapter 3. Two key features separate this book from others: its clear organization and its user-friendly, accessible lang... MORE
| Introduction | |
| The Study of Grammar: An Overview | |
| English: A World Language | |
| Three Definitions of Grammar | |
| Traditional School Grammar | |
| Modern Linguistics | |
| Structural Grammar | |
| Transformational Grammar | |
| The Issue of Correctness | |
| Language Variety | |
| Language Change | |
| ... MORE | |
| Key Terms | |
| Further Reading | |
| Classroom Applications | |
| Questions for Discussion | |
| The Grammar of Basic Sentences | |
| All chapters in Part II have Key Terms, Sentences for Practice, Questions for Discussion, and Classroom Applications | |
| An Introduction to Words and Phrases | |
| Form Classes | |
| Nouns | |
| The Noun Phrase | |
| Verbs | |
| The Verb Phrase | |
| NP + VP = S | |
| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| Prepositional Phrases | |
| Sentence Patterns | |
| Subjects and Predicates | |
| The Sentence Slots | |
| The BePatterns | |
| The Linking Verb Patterns | |
| The Optional Slots | |
| The Intransitive Verb Pattern | |
| Exceptions to the Intransitive Pattern | |
| Intransitive Phrasal Verbs | |
| The Transitive Verb Patterns | |
| Transitive Phrasal Verbs | |
| The Indirect Object Pattern | |
| The Object Complement Patterns | |
| Compound Structures | |
| Exceptions to the Ten Sentence Patterns | |
| Sentence Types | |
| Interrogative Sentences (Questions) | |
| Imperative Sentences (Commands) | |
| Exclamatory Sentences | |
| Punctuation and the Sentence Patterns | |
| Diagramming the Sentence Patterns | |
| Notes on the Diagrams | |
| The Main Line | |
| The Noun Phrase | |
| The Verb Phrase | |
| The Prepositional Phrase | |
| Compound Structures | |
| Punctuation | |
| Expanding the Main Verb | |
| The Five Verb Forms | |
| Auxiliary-Verb Combinations | |
| The Modal Auxiliaries | |
| The Subjunctive Mood | |
| Tense and Aspect | |
| Using the Verb Forms | |
| The "Future Tense" | |
| Exceptions to the Rule | |
| The Stand-In Auxiliary Do | |
| The Verb System of African American Vernacular English | |
| Changing Sentence Focus | |
| The Passive Voice | |
| The Passive Get | |
| The Transitive-Passive Relationship | |
| Patterns VIII to X in Passive Voice | |
| Changing Passive Voice to Active Voice | |
| The Passive Voice in Prose | |
| Other Passive Purposes | |
| The There Transformation | |
| Cleft Sentences | |
| Expanding the Sentence | |
| All chapters in Part III have Key Terms, Sentences for Practice, Questions for Discussion, and Classroom Applications | |
| Form and Function | |
| Modifiers of the Verb: Adverbials | |
| Adverbs | |
| Prepositional Phrases | |
| Nouns and Noun Phrases | |
| Verb Phrases | |
| Dangling Infinitives | |
| Clauses | |
| Punctuation of Adverbials | |
| Modifers of the Noun: Adjectivals | |
| The Determiner | |
| Adjectives and Nouns | |
| Prenoun participles | |
| Prepositional Phrases | |
| Relative Clauses | |
| Participial Phrases | |
| Passive Participles | |
| The Participle as Object Complement | |
| Movable Participles | |
| Dangling Participles | |
| Participles as Adverbials | |
| Punctuation of Clauses and Participles | |
| Multiple Modifiers | |
| Other Postnoun Modifiers | |
| Infinitives | |
| Noun Phrases | |
| Adjectives | |
| Adverbs | |
| The Noun Phrase Functions: Nominals | |
| The Nominal Slots | |
| Appositives | |
| Punctuation of Appositives | |
| Noun Phrase Substitutes | |
| Gerunds | |
| The Pattern of the Gerund | |
| The Subject of the Gerund | |
| Dangling Gerunds | |
| Infinitives | |
| The Subject of the Infinitive | |
| Nominal Clauses | |
| The Expletive That | |
| Interrogatives | |
| Yes/No Interrogatives | |
| Punctuation of Nominal Clauses | |
| Nominals as Delayed Subjects | |
| Sentence Modifiers | |
| Nouns of Direct Address: The Vocatives | |
| Interjections | |
| Subordinate Clauses | |
| Punctuation of Subordinate Clauses | |
| Elliptical Clauses | |
| Absolute Phrases | |
| Appositives | |
| Relative Clauses | |
| Coordination | |
| Coordination within the Sentence | |
| Punctuation | |
| Elliptical Coordinate Structures | |
| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| Parallel Structure | |
| Coordinating Complete Sentences | |
| Conjunctions | |
| Semicolons | |
| Colons | |
| Diagramming the Compound Sentence | |
| Words and Word Classes | |
| All chapters in Part IV have Key Terms, Questions for Discussion, and Classroom Applications | |
| Morphemes | |
| Bases and Affixes | |
| Bound and Free Morphemes | |
| Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes | |
| Allomorphs | |
| Homonyms | |
| Compound Words | |
| The Form Classes | |
| Nouns | |
| Noun Derivational Suffixes | |
| Noun Inflectional Suffixes | |
| The Meaning of the Possessive Case | |
| Irregular Plural Inflections | |
| Plural-Only Forms | |
| Collective Nouns | |
| Semantic Features of Nouns | |
| Verbs | |
| Verb Derivational Affixes | |
| Verb Inflectional Suffixes | |
| Adjectives | |
| Adjective Derivational Suffixes | |
| Adjective Inflectional Suffixes | |
| Subclasses of Adjectives | |
| Adverbs | |
| Adverb Derivational Suffixes | |
| Adverb Inflectional Suffixes | |
| The Structure Classes | |
| Determiners | |
| The Expanded Determiner | |
| Auxiliaries | |
| Qualifiers | |
| Prepositions | |
| Simple Prepositions | |
| Phrasal Prepositions | |
| Conjunctions | |
| Coordinating Conjunctions | |
| Correlative Conjunctions | |
| Conjunctive Adverbs (Adverbial Conjunctions) | |
| Subordinating Conjunctions | |
| Relatives | |
| Interrogatives | |
| Expletives | |
| There | |
| That | |
| Or | |
| As | |
| If and Whether (or not) | |
| Particles | |
| Pronouns | |
| Personal Pronouns | |
| Case | |
| Gender | |
| Reflexive Pronouns | |
| Intensive Pronouns | |
| Reciprocal Pronouns | |
| Demonstrative Pronouns | |
| Relative Pronouns | |
| Interrogative Pronouns | |
| Indefinite Pronouns | |
| Grammar for Writers | |
| Rhetorical Grammar | |
| Sentence Patterns | |
| Basic Sentences | |
| The Linking Beand Metaphor | |
| Cohesion | |
| Sentence Rhythm | |
| End Focus | |
| Sentence Transformations | |
| Choosing Verbs | |
| The Overuse of Be | |
| The Passive Voice | |
| The Abstract Subject | |
| The Shifting Adverbials | |
| The Adverbial Clause | |
| The Adverbs of Emphasis | |
| The Common Only | |
| Metadiscourse | |
| Style | |
| Word Order Variation | |
| Ellipsis | |
| The Coordinate Series | |
| The Introductory Appositive Series | |
| The Deliberate Sentence Fragment | |
| Repetition | |
| Antithesis | |
| Using Gender Appropriately | |
| Key Terms | |
| Purposeful Punctuation | |
| Making Connections | |
| Compounding Sentences | |
| Compounding Structures within Sentences | |
| Connecting More Than Two Parts: The Series | |
| Separating Prenoun Modifiers | |
| Identifying Essential and Nonessential | |
| Structures | |
| Signaling Sentence Openers | |
| Signaling Emphasis | |
| Using Apostrophes for Contraction and Possessive Case | |
| Glossary of Grammatical Terms | |
| Appendix on Sentence Diagramming | |
| Answers to the Exercises | |
| Index | |
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