| Edition |
Third edition |
| Description |
xi, 911 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers
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English language -- Grammar
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| Added Author |
Celce-Murcia, Marianne
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Frodesen, Jan
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White, Benjamin
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Williams, Howard Alan
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| ISBN |
9781111351861 |
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