Doing Grammar Fourth Edition
ISBN: 9780195387292 | 0195387295
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 12/17/2009
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Doing Grammar is a practical and lively guide to discovering how the English language works. Author Max Morenberg uses modern linguistic theories to build upon traditional frameworks and provide accessible explanations about the composition of sentences, illustrating them at every step with diagrams and other visual models. In this fourth edition, Doing Grammar retains its unique voice, clarity, and organization, but also demonstrates the author's commitment to a renewed and streamlined focus on the critical skills necessary for writing effecti... MORE
| Preface | |
| Identifying Verbs and Core Sentences | |
| Preview | |
| Grammar and Our View of Language1` | |
| Verbs and Core Sentences | |
| Verbs: The Basic Sentence Components | |
| Intransitive Verbs | |
| Linking Verbs | |
| Transitive Verbs | |
| Two Place Transitive Verbs | |
| Vg Verbs | |
| Vc Verbs | ... MORE|
| Two Place Transitives as Transitive Verbs | |
| The Verb BE | |
| Verbs and Slots and Sentence Nuclei | |
| Verbs Change Types | |
| Reference Material | |
| Knowledge and Practice | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Exercises | |
| Identifying Verb Types | |
| Relating Words, Phrases, and Slots | |
| Parts of Speech | |
| What Nouns Do | |
| Verbs, Modals, Auxiliaries, and Tense | |
| Adjectives and Noun Characteristics | |
| Adverbs Orient Readers and Listeners | |
| Prepositions Precede Noun Phrases | |
| Words and Grammar | |
| Grammatical Slots Identify Phrases | |
| The Hierarchy | |
| Constituents as Hierarchies | |
| Grammatical Analyis and Chicken Parts | |
| Heads and Attributes | |
| Basic Sentence Structure | |
| The Yes/No Question Test | |
| Tree Diagrams | |
| Diagrams as Tools | |
| Multiple-Word Verbs | |
| Words, Hierarchies, and Constituents | |
| Exercises | |
| Identifying Sentence Constituents | |
| Expanding Verb Phrases | |
| Tense, Modality, and Aspect | |
| Statu of the Main Verb | |
| Verb Form | |
| Finiteness | |
| Mood and Purpose | |
| Conditional Mood and Possibility | |
| Future Time and Conditional Mood Again | |
| Aspect | |
| Past Participles | |
| Present Participles | |
| Tense Forms of Main Verbs | |
| How to Expand a Main Verb | |
| Regular Verbs | |
| Summary | |
| Exercises | |
| Changing Main Verb Forms | |
| Identify Verb Status and Analyzing Sentence | |
| Exploring Noun Phrases | |
| Noun Phrase Component | |
| Proper and Common Nouns | |
| Determiners | |
| Definite Articles | |
| Possessive Pronouns | |
| Numbers | |
| Prearticles | |
| Postnoun Modifiers | |
| Genitives | |
| Genitive Rather than Possessive | |
| Personal, Reflexive, and Indefinite Pronoun | |
| Function Words Can Expand Noun Phrases | |
| Here are the Main Points in the Chapter | |
| Exercises | |
| Identifying Noun Constituents and Analyzing Sentences | |
| Rearranging and Compounding | |
| Changing Core Sentences | |
| Making Negative Sentences | |
| Changing Statements into Yes/No Questions | |
| Wh-Question Sentences | |
| Passive Sentences | |
| Deleting By from a Passive | |
| Core Arrangement of Passive Constituents | |
| Past Participles and Adjectives | |
| Get as a Passive Auxiliary | |
| Rearranging a Passive Sentence | |
| Status and Passive | |
| Existential-There Sentences | |
| Expletives | |
| Imperative Structure | |
| Deleting You and Will from Imperative Sentences | |
| Diagramming Imperative Sentences | |
| Imperative Sentence Lack Tense | |
| The Negative Form of Imperatives | |
| Compounding Structures | |
| Coordinate and Correlative Conjunctions | |
| Conjoining and Commas | |
| Attaching Conjunctions | |
| Conjunctive Adverbs | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Exercises | |
| Rearranging and Compounding Sentences | |
| Analyzing Sentences | |
| Constructing Relative Clauses | |
| Dependent Clauses | |
| Little Sentences Combine to Make Big Sentences | |
| Why We Combine Sentences | |
| A Relative Clause Embeds into a Noun Phrase | |
| The Way It Was Is the Way It Is | |
| Restrictive Relative Clauses as Adjectives | |
| Making a Relative Clause | |
| Relative Pronouns Replace Noun Phrases | |
| Whose Replaces a Possessive Pronoun or a Genitive Noun | |
| Relative Pronouns in Prepositional Phrases | |
| The Functions of Fronted Relatives | |
| Find the Constituents of the Relative Clause | |
| Deleting Object Noun Phrases from Relative Clauses | |
| Embedding Relative Clauses into Subordinate Clauses | |
| Constituents in Independent or Dependent Clauses | |
| Here are the Main Points in the Chapter | |
| Exercises | |
| Combining Sentences | |
| Breaking Out Underlying Sentences | |
| Analyzing Sentences | |
| Reducing Relative Clauses to Phrases | |
| Deriving Prepositional and Participial Phrases | |
| Reducing Clauses | |
| Participial Phrases are Verb Phrases | |
| Making Some Verbs into Present Participles | |
| Deriving Past Participial Phrases | |
| Embedded Prepositional Phrases | |
| Constituency: Adjectives or Adverbs | |
| How the Components of an Embedded Phrase Function | |
| Prepositional Phrases Headed by With | |
| We Won't Derive One-Word Modifiers | |
| Embedded Phrases and Commas | |
| Making Long Sentences from Just a Few Kinds of Phrases and Clauses | |
| The Clauses that Underlie a Sentence's Constituents | |
| Grammatical Ambiguity | |
| Phrases Derived from Relative Clauses | |
| Here are the Main Points of the Chapter | |
| Exercises | |
| Breaking Out Underlying Sentences | |
| Combining Sentences | |
| Analyzing Sentences | |
| Making Noun Clauses, Gerunds, and Infinitives | |
| Noun Clauses, Gerunds, and Infinitives Fill Noun Phrase Slots | |
| That-Clauses | |
| Noun Clauses Fill Noun Phrase Slots | |
| Extraposing That-Clauses | |
| Some Sentences with Expletives and Noun Clauses Don't Seem to Be Derived | |
| Wh-Subordinators Act as Content Words within Noun Clauses | |
| Wh-Clauses Are Related to Question Sentences | |
| Reducing Clauses to Infinitive Phrases | |
| Infinitives without to | |
| Infinitive Phrases Introduced by For ... to | |
| Some Infinitives Function as Adverbs | |
| Gerunds Are -ing Verb Forms | |
| Gerund Phrases May Contain a Subject in the Genitive Form | |
| Studying Grammar is Cumulative | |
| Embedded Structures That Fill Noun Phrase Slot in Matrix Clauses | |
| Here are the Main Points of Chapter 8 | |
| Exercises | |
| Breaking Out Underlying Sentences | |
| Combining Sentences | |
| Analyzing Sentences | |
| Adding Modifiers to Sentences | |
| Nonrestrictive Modifiers | |
| Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses Sit Next to Noun Phrases | |
| Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses Make Added Comments | |
| Nonrestrictive Participial Phrases | |
| Nonrestrictive Participial Phrases Function as Adverbs | |
| Appositives Sit Next to Nouns | |
| Absolute Phrases | |
| Adverb Cluses Share Some Characteristics of Nonrestrictive Modifiers | |
| Adverb Clauses and Subordinate Conjunctions | |
| Nonrestrictive Modifiers Change the Pace, Rhythm, and Movement in Sentences | |
| A Grammar Course Should Prepare You to Analyze Real Sentences | |
| Doing Grammar is About Understanding the System That Generates Sentences | |
| Here are the Main Points of Chapter 9 | |
| Exercises | |
| Breaking Out Underlying Sentences | |
| Combining Sentences | |
| Analyzing Sentences | |
| What can You do Now that You can do Grammar? | |
| Reflecting on Writing and Reading | |
| Style | |
| Students Writing With Style | |
| Most Punctuation Can Be Addressed with Three Principles | |
| Teachers Should Point Out Interesting and Effective Student Sentences | |
| Good Writers, Good Readers, and Good Teachers Understand the Options Grammar Gives Us to Construct Sentences | |
| Exercises | |
| Answer Key | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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Max Morenberg is Professor Emeritus at Miami University, where he co-directed the Ohio Writing Project. He is the co-author of The Writer's Options: Lessons in Style and Arrangement, Eight Edition (2007) and The Writing Teacher as Researcher: Essays in the Theory and Practice of Class-Based Research (1990).
