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.?
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Grammatical Terminology
Chapter 3 - Lexicogrammar
Chapter 4 - Copular Verbs and Subject-Verb Agreement
Chapter 5 - Word Order and the Phrase Structure Rules for the Subject of a Sentence
Chapter 6 - More Phrase Structure Rules: The Predicate of a Sentence
Chapter 7 - The Tense-Aspect System
Chapter 8 - Modal Auxiliaries and Related Phrasal Forms
Chapter 9 - The Tense-Aspect-Modality System in Discourse
Chapter 10 - Negation
Chapter 11 - Yes/No Questions
Chapter 12 - Imperatives
Chapter 13 - Wh-Questions
Chapter 14 - Tag, Alternative, Exclamatory, and Rhetorical Questions
Chapter 15 - Articles
Chapter 16 - Reference and Possession
Chapter 17 - Partitives, Collectives, and Quantifiers
Chapter 18 - The Passive Voice
Chapter 19 - Sentences with Indirect Objects
Chapter 20 - Adjectives
Chapter 21 - Prepositions
Chapter 22 - Phrasal Verbs
Chapter 23 - Nonreferential Subjects: Ambient It and Existential There
Chapter 24 - Conjunction
Chapter 25 - Adverbials
Chapter 26 - Logical Connectors
Chapter 27 - Conditionals
Chapter 28 - Introduction to Relative Clauses
Chapter 29 - More on Relative Clauses: Nonrestrictive and Relative Adverb Clauses
Chapter 30 - Focus and Emphasis
Chapter 31 - Complementation
Chapter 32 - Other Aspects of Complementation
Chapter 33 - Reported Speech and Writing
Chapter 34 - Degree - Comparatives and Equatives
Chapter 35 - Degree - Complementations and Superlatives
Chapter 36 - Conculsion
Suggested Answers to Chapter Exercises
Indexes:
Index of Names
Index of Languages and Language Groups
Index of Words, Phrases, and Affixes
Index of Topics
