TY  - GEN
AU  - Larsen-Freeman, Diane
AU  - Celce-Murcia, Marianne 
AU  - Frodesen, Jan 
AU  - White, Benjamin 
AU  - Williams, Howard Alan
TI  - The grammar book: form, meaning, and use for English language teachers 
SN  - 9781111351861
AV  - PE1128.A2 .L318 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Boston, MA : 
PB  - National Geographic Learning, Heinle Cengage Learning
KW  - English language
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Foreign speakers
KW  - Grammar
N1  - 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; AB101
AB108
AF101
BM101;  Proficiency English
N2  - 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
ER  -