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Doing Grammar

ISBN: 9780195097832 | 0195097831
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 2/20/1997

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
The new edition of this innovative text employs insights from contemporary linguistic theories but builds them into a practical and coherent system that stays firmly rooted within traditional models. Its down-to-earth explanations about how language works are illustrated at every step with diagrams and other visual models. The examples and exercises consist of provocative and intelligent sentences, not desiccated grammar-book examples. Each chapter includes a sentence-analysis exercise with fifty problems. Answers are provided for ten sentences... MORE
Prefacevii
Identifying Verb Types
1(22)
Preview
1(1)
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2(2)
The Implications of How We Define Grammar
4(1)
Verbs Are Central to Sentence Structure
5(1)
Intransitive Verbs
6(1)
Linking Verbs
7(1)
Transitive Verbs
8(1)
Two-Place Transitive Verbs
9(1)
Two-Place Transitives: Vg Verbs
9(3)
Two-Place Transitives: Vc Verbs
12(1)
The Verb Be
13(1)
Summary of Verb Types
14(1)
Verbs and Slots and Nuclei
15(1)
Verbs Can Change Categories
15(1)
More Patterns and Some References
16(2)
Summary
18(5)
Writing Definitions
20(1)
Identifying Verb Types
20(3)
Analyzing Sentences
23(23)
Preview
23(1)
Two Main Sentence Parts
24(1)
Finding Subjects and Predicates
24(3)
Constituents and the Colonel
27(3)
Hierarchies
30(1)
Diagraming and a Ride on the Author's Hobbyhorse
31(3)
Prepositional Phrases
34(1)
Adverbs Explained, Sort Of
35(3)
Multiple-Word Verbs
38(3)
Summary
41(5)
Writing Definitions
42(1)
Identifying Sentence Constituents
43(3)
Expanding Verb Phrases
46(23)
Preview
46(1)
Verb Status
47(1)
Tense
48(2)
Tense and the Predicate
50(1)
Mood, a Brief Definition
51(1)
Modal Auxiliaries and Conditional Mood
51(1)
Modal Auxiliaries
51(2)
Conditional Mood and Future Time
53(1)
What Happened to Future Tense?
54(1)
Aspect
55(1)
Perfect Aspect
55(2)
Past Participles
57(1)
Progressive Aspect
58(2)
Differentiating Participles from Adjectives
60(1)
Putting Tense, Modality, and Aspect Together
60(2)
Principal Parts of Verbs
62(2)
Summary
64(5)
Writing Definitions
65(1)
Changing Main-Verb Forms
66(1)
Identifying Verb Status and Analyzing Sentences
66(3)
Exploring Noun Phrases
69(20)
Preview
69(1)
Types of Nouns
69(1)
Proper or Common
70(1)
Determiners
70(1)
The Difference between Determiners and Adjectives
71(1)
Articles
72(1)
Demonstratives
73(1)
Possessive Pronouns
74(1)
Numbers
74(1)
Pre-articles
75(4)
Post-noun Modifiers
79(1)
Genitive Nouns (a.k.a. Possessive Nouns)
79(3)
Other Types of Pronouns
82(1)
Personal Pronouns
83(1)
Reflective Pronouns
83(1)
Indefinite Pronouns
84(1)
Summary
84(5)
Writing Definitions
85(1)
Identifying Noun Constituents and Analyzing Sentences
85(4)
Rearranging and Compounding
89(41)
Preview
90(1)
Rearranging
90(1)
Negative Sentences
91(6)
Questions
97(1)
Yes/No Questions
97(1)
Wh-Questions
98(5)
Passive Sentences
103(3)
The Structure of Passives
106(2)
Deleting By Phrases
108(1)
Where Have All the Constituents Gone?
108(2)
Adjectives or Past Participles?
110(1)
Passives with Get
110(1)
Negatives and Questions in Passives
111(1)
MV Status in Passives
111(1)
Sentences with There
112(1)
Expletives
113(2)
Imperative Sentences
115(1)
Understood You in Imperative Sentences
115(1)
Diagraming Imperatives
116(1)
The Status of Imperatives
116(1)
Imperatives and Negatives
117(1)
Compounding
117(3)
Conjunctions
120(1)
Punctuating Compounds
120(3)
Conjunctive Adverbs
123(1)
Summary
124(6)
Writing Definitions
125(1)
Rearranging and Compounding Sentences
125(1)
Analyzing Sentences
126(4)
Constructing Relative Clauses
130(25)
Preview
130(1)
Clauses
131(1)
Why Do You Combine Clauses?
131(1)
Relative Clauses
132(1)
The Structure and Function of Relative Clauses
132(1)
Where Relative Clauses Are Embedded
132(1)
The Structure of Relative Clauses: The Way It Was
133(3)
The Relation of a Relative Clause to Its Matrix Clause
136(2)
Constructing Relative Clauses
138(3)
Relatives
141(1)
Choosing a Relative Pronoun
141(3)
Fronted Relatives and Functions
144(2)
Deleting Object Noun Phrases
146(1)
Embedding Relative Clauses into Dependent Clauses
147(1)
Restrictive Clauses
148(1)
Summary
148(1)
Clauses
148(1)
Relative Clauses
148(1)
Grammar as a Discrete Combinatorial System
149(1)
Hierarchy as Underlying Design
149(6)
Writing Definitions
149(1)
Combining Sentences
149(1)
Breaking out Underlying Sentence
150(1)
Analyzing Sentences
151(4)
Reducing Relative Clauses to Phrases
155(26)
Preview
155(1)
Reducing Relative Clauses
155(1)
Present Participial Phrases
156(3)
Past Participial Phrases
159(2)
Prepositional Phrases
161(3)
Constituency within Embedded Phrases
164(1)
Single-Word Participles, Adverbs, and Adjectives
165(2)
Restrictive Phrases
167(1)
Parsing, Onion Peeling, and ``Thermogrammatics'': Some Irreverent Thoughts
167(6)
Problems Identifying Constituents
173(1)
Summary
174(7)
Writing Definitions
175(1)
Breaking Out Underlying Sentences
175(1)
Combining Sentences
175(1)
Analyzing Sentences
176(5)
Making Noun Clauses, Gerunds, and Infinitives
181(31)
Preview
181(1)
That-Clauses
182(3)
Distinguishing Noun Clauses from Relative Clauses
185(1)
Moving That-Clauses
186(1)
Wh-Clauses
187(8)
Infinitives That Function as Nouns
195(2)
Words That Introduce Infinitives
197(3)
Infinitives That Function as Adverbs
200(1)
Gerunds
200(4)
Putting Structures and Processes Together
204(1)
Summary
205(7)
Writing Definitions
205(1)
Breaking Out Underlying Sentences
206(1)
Combining Sentences
206(1)
Analyzing Sentences
207(5)
Adding Modifiers to Sentences
212(29)
Preview
212(1)
Nonrestrictive Modifiers
213(1)
Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses
214(4)
Participial Phrases
218(1)
Appositive Nouns and Adjectives
219(1)
Appositive Noun Phrases
219(3)
Appositive Adjective Phrases
222(1)
Absolute Phrases
223(4)
Adverb Clauses
227(4)
Putting Sentence Modifiers Together
231(1)
A Final Word on Taking Sentences Apart
232(1)
Summary and Implications
233(8)
Writing Definitions
234(1)
Breaking Out Underlying Sentences
234(1)
Combining Sentences
235(1)
Analyzing Sentences
236(5)
What Can You do Now that You Can do Grammar? The Rhetoric of Sentences
241(21)
Preview
241(2)
Reflecting on Literature: Style and Meaning
243(5)
Getting Rid of Gibberish
248(3)
Constructing Effective Sentences
251(3)
Using Punctuation to Improve Sentence Effectiveness
254(6)
Summary and Implications
260(2)
Exercises
260(2)
Appendix Selected Answers262(26)
Index288
Max Morenberg is Professor of English at Miami University

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