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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Anita BarryPublisher: Pearson Education Limited Imprint: Pearson Education Limited Edition: 3rd edition Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 27.40cm Weight: 0.542kg ISBN: 9781292040400ISBN 10: 1292040408 Pages: 252 Publication Date: 01 November 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPREFACE xiii Chapter 1 WHY STUDY ENGLISH GRAMMAR? 1 Native Speakers and Grammar Study 1 Standard English 2 Judgments About English 4 The Legacy of the Eighteenth Century 7 Reflections 8 Chapter 2 HOW DO WE STUDY ENGLISH GRAMMAR? 10 Why Do People Disagree About Grammar? 10Who Is the Authority? 10 What Role Do Traditional Dictionaries Play? 10 Online Grammar Sources 12 Why Is There No One Standard? 13 Why Do Languages Change? 14 What Are the Common Elements of English? 16 Constituent Structure 16 Rules and Regularities 19 Reflections 20 Chapter 3 NOUNS AND NOUN PHRASES 21What Are Nouns? 21 What Are Some Common Subcategories of Nouns? 23 What Makes Up a Noun Phrase? 26 Determiners 27 Predeterminers and Postdeterminers 29 What Are the Functions of Noun Phrases? 30 Subject 30 Direct Object 32 Indirect Object 33 Object of a Preposition 35 Complement 35 Verbal Nouns and Noun Phrases 36 Compounds 38 Reflections 40 Practice Exercises 42 Chapter 4 VERBS AND VERB PHRASES 46 What Are Verbs? 46 What About the Exceptions? 50 What Are Some Common Subcategories of Verbs? 53 What Is Verb Tense? 57 What Makes Up a Verb Phrase? 63 What Are Nonfinite Verb Phrases? 66 Compounds 66 What Is SubjectVerb Agreement? 67 Reflections 72 Practice Exercises 76 Chapter 5 PRONOUNS 80 What Are Pronouns? 80 Personal Pronouns 81 Reflexive Pronouns 88 Reciprocal Pronouns 91 Demonstrative Pronouns 91 Relative Pronouns 92 Interrogative Pronouns 94 Universal and Indefinite Pronouns 95 Reflections 97 Practice Exercises 99 Chapter 6 ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS 103What Are Adjectives? 103 How Do Adjectives Modify Nouns? 106 What Are Adjective Phrases? 108 What Are Adverbs? 109 Is All Well and Good? 112 What Are Adverb Phrases? 115 Reflections 116 Practice Exercises 117 Chapter 7 PREPOSITIONS AND PARTICLES 120 What Are Prepositions? 120 What Are Prepositional Phrases? 121 What Are Particles? 125 Reflections 127 Practice Exercises 128 Chapter 8 NEGATION 131What Is Negation in Grammar? 131 Verb Negation 131 Negation of Indefinites 133 Noun Negation 135 Adjective and Adverb Negation 136 Negation of Compounds 137 Reflections 139 Practice Exercises 140 Chapter 9 VOICE 144 What Is Grammatical Voice? 144 How Is the Passive Voice Formed? 146 How Are Grammatical Relations Determined in the Passive Voice? 147 Why Do We Need the Passive Voice? 149 What Is a Truncated Passive? 150 Reflections 152 Practice Exercises 153 Chapter 10 DISCOURSE FUNCTION 156What Is Discourse Function? 156 Declaratives 157 Interrogatives 158 YesNo Questions 158 Wh Questions 160 Tag Questions 164 Minor Question Types 167 Imperatives 169 Exclamatives 170 Crossover Functions of Clause Types 171 Reflections 174 Practice Exercises 175 Chapter 11 COMBINING CLAUSES INTO SENTENCES: COORDINATION 179 How Is a Sentence Different from a Clause? 179 Sentence Building Through Coordination 179 Clause Coordination and Ellipsis 183 Reflections 185 Practice Exercises 186 Chapter 12 COMBINING CLAUSES INTO SENTENCES: SUBORDINATION 189 Sentence Building Through Subordination 189Adverbial Clauses 191 Noun Clauses 194 Relative Clauses 199 Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses 202 Reduced Relative Clauses 204 Naming Sentence Types 206 Reflections 208 Practice Exercises 210 Chapter 13 WHY STUDY ENGLISH GRAMMAR? (ONCE MORE!) 215 Teaching Grammar 215 Final Reflections 217 ANSWERS TO PRACTICE EXERCISES 219 GLOSSARY 233 INDEX 241 A01_ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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