The grammar book : form, meaning, and use for English language teachers / Diane Larsen-Freeman; Marianne Celce-Murcia; Jan Frodesen; Benjamin White; Howard Alan Williams

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Larsen-Freeman, Diane [Author]

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9781111351861

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PE1128.A2 .L318 2016

Contents:

Grammatical terminology -- Lexicogrammar -- Copular verbs and subject-verb agreement -- Word order and the phrase structure rules for the subject of a sentence -- More phrase structure rules : the predicate of a sentence -- The tense-aspect system -- Modal auxiliaries and related phrasal forms -- The tense-aspect-modality system in discourse -- Negation -- Yes/No questions -- Imperatives -- Wh-questions -- Tag, alternative, exclamatory, and rhetorical questions -- Articles -- Reference and possession -- Partitives, collectives, and quantifiers -- The passive voice -- Sentences with indirect objects -- Adjectives -- Prepositions -- Phrasal verbs -- Nonreferential subjects : ambient It and existential There -- Conjunction -- Adverbials -- Logical connectors -- Conditionals -- Introduction to relative clauses -- More on relative clauses : nonrestrictive and relative adverb clauses -- Focus and emphasis -- Complementation -- Other aspects of complementation -- Reported speech and writing -- Degree-comparatives and equatives -- Degre-complements and superlatives.

Summary: The Grammar Book introduces teachers and future teachers to English grammatical constructions. This highly acclaimed text, used both as a course book and as a grammar reference guide, is suitable for all teachers of English. What sets it apart from other grammar books is its unique pedagogical focus: It describes not only how each grammatical construction is formed, but also its meaning and its use. Grammar is seen to be a resource for making meaning in textually and socially appropriate ways.

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Includes index

Grammatical terminology --
Lexicogrammar --
Copular verbs and subject-verb agreement --
Word order and the phrase structure rules for the subject of a sentence --
More phrase structure rules : the predicate of a sentence --
The tense-aspect system --
Modal auxiliaries and related phrasal forms --
The tense-aspect-modality system in discourse --
Negation --
Yes/No questions --
Imperatives --
Wh-questions --
Tag, alternative, exclamatory, and rhetorical questions --
Articles --
Reference and possession --
Partitives, collectives, and quantifiers --
The passive voice --
Sentences with indirect objects --
Adjectives --
Prepositions --
Phrasal verbs --
Nonreferential subjects : ambient It and existential There --
Conjunction --
Adverbials --
Logical connectors --
Conditionals --
Introduction to relative clauses --
More on relative clauses : nonrestrictive and relative adverb clauses --
Focus and emphasis --
Complementation --
Other aspects of complementation --
Reported speech and writing --
Degree-comparatives and equatives --
Degre-complements and superlatives.

The Grammar Book introduces teachers and future teachers to English grammatical constructions. This highly acclaimed text, used both as a course book and as a grammar reference guide, is suitable for all teachers of English. What sets it apart from other grammar books is its unique pedagogical focus: It describes not only how each grammatical construction is formed, but also its meaning and its use. Grammar is seen to be a resource for making meaning in textually and socially appropriate ways.

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