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Understanding English Grammar
ISBN: 9780205268559 | 0205268552
Edition: 5thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
Pub. Date: 7/1/1997
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For courses in advanced grammar. Best-seller. Practical, ecelectic approach with a systematic approach to learning grammar. New: Chapter 1 on history of grammar pedagogy, "Classrom Applications," co-author Funk, section on rhetoric of punctuation (Ch. 14).
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| The Study of Grammar: An Overview | |
| Modern Linguistics | |
| The Issue of Correctness | |
| The Question of Standards | |
| Language Variety | |
| Language Change | |
| Language in the Classroom | |
| Key Terms in | |
| Classroom Applications | |
| The Grammar of Basic Sentence... MORE | |
| Sentence Patterns | |
| Words and Phrases: An Overview | |
| Sentence Structure | |
| The Sentence Slots | |
| The Be Patterns | |
| The Linking Verb Patterns | |
| The Optional Slots | |
| The Intransitive Verb Pattern | |
| The Transitive Verb Pattern | |
| Compound Sentences | |
| Exceptions to the Ten Sentence Patterns | |
| Imperative Sentences (Commands) | |
| Punctuation and the Sentence Patterns | |
| Diagramming the Sentence Patterns | |
| Notes on the Diagrams | |
| Key Terms in | |
| Sentences for Practice | |
| Questions for Discussion | |
| Classroom Applications | |
| Expanding the Main Verb | |
| The Five Verb Forms | |
| Auxiliary-Verb Combinations | |
| The Modal Auxiliaries | |
| The Subjunctive Mood | |
| Using the Verb Forms | |
| Exceptions to the Rule | |
| The "Stand-In" Auxiliary Do | |
| The Passive Voice | |
| The Verb System of African American Vernacular English | |
| Key Terms in | |
| Sentences for Practice | |
| Questions for Discussion | |
| Classroom Applications | |
| Transforming the Basic Program | |
| Interrogative Sentences | |
| The "Stand-In" Auxiliary | |
| Emphatic Sentences | |
| Imperative Sentences | |
| Exclamatory Sentences | |
| Other Sentence Transformations | |
| Key Terms in | |
| Sentences for Practice | |
| Questions for Discussion | |
| Classroom Applications | |
| Expanding The Sentence | |
| Form and Function | |
| Modifiers of the Verb: Adverbials | |
| Adverbs | |
| Prepositional Phrases | |
| Nouns and Noun Phrases | |
| Verb Phrases | |
| Clauses | |
| Punctuation of Adverbials | |
| Key Terms in | |
| Sentences for Practice | |
| Questions for Discussion | |
| Classroom Applications | |
| Modifiers of the Noun: Adjectives | |
| The Headword | |
| The Prenoun Modifiers | |
| The Postnoun Modifiers | |
| Punctuation of Clauses and Participles | |
| Multiple Modifiers | |
| Other Postnoun Modifiers | |
| Key Terms in | |
| Sentences for Practice | |
| Questions for Discussion | |
| Classroom Applications | |
| The Noun Phrase Functions: Nominals | |
| The Nominal Slots | |
| Appositives | |
| Noun Phrase Substitutes | |
| Gerunds | |
| Infinitives | |
| Nominal Clauses | |
| Nominals as Delayed Subjects | |
| Key Terms in | |
| Sentences for Practice | |
| Questions for Discussion | |
| Classroom Applications | |
| Sentence Modifiers | |
| Nouns of Direct Address: The Vocatives | |
| Interjections | |
| Subordinate Clauses | |
| Absolute Phrases | |
| Appositives | |
| Relative Clauses | |
| Key Terms in | |
| Sentences for Practice | |
| Questions for Discussion | |
| Classroom Applications | |
| Coordination | |
| Coordination Within the Sentence | |
| Coordinating Complete Sentences | |
| Key Terms in | |
| Sentences for Practice | |
| Questions for Discussion | |
| Classroom Applications | |
| Words and Word Classes | |
| Morphemes | |
| Bases and Affixes | |
| Bound and Free Morphemes | |
| Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes | |
| Allomorphs | |
| Homonyms | |
| Key Terms in | |
| Questions for Discussion | |
| Classroom Applications | |
| The Form Classes | |
| Nouns | |
| Verbs | |
| Adjectives | |
| Adverbs | |
| Key Terms in | |
| Questions for Discussions | |
| Classroom Applications | |
| The Structure Classes | |
| Determiners | |
| Auxiliaries | |
| Qualifiers | |
| Prepositions | |
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