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Author Nelson, Gerald

Title English
Edition 3rd ed
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (263 pages)
Series Routledge Essential Grammars Ser
Routledge Essential Grammars Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of abbreviations; Introduction; What is grammar?; Grammar 'rules' and grammatical structures; Standard English; English as a world language; British English and American English; How this book is organised; A note on sources; Chapter 1 Introducing sentence structure; 1.1 The constituents of a sentence; 1.2 The Grammatical Hierarchy; 1.3 Form and function in grammatical description; 1.4 Subject and verb; 1.5 Identifying the Subject; 1.5.1 The Inversion Test; 1.5.2 The Tag Question Test; 1.5.3 Subject-verb agreement
1.6 Verb types and sentence patterns1.6.1 Intransitive verbs; 1.6.2 Linking verbs and Subject Complements; 1.6.3 Monotransitive verbs and Direct Objects; 1.6.4 Ditransitive verbs and Indirect Objects; 1.6.5 Complex transitive verbs and Object Complements; 1.6.6 Adverbial Complements; 1.6.7 Summary: the six sentence patterns; 1.7 Active sentences and passive sentences; 1.8 Adjuncts; 1.8.1 The meanings of Adjuncts; 1.9 Peripheral constituents in sentence structure; 1.10 Fragments and non-sentences; Exercises for Chapter 1; Chapter 2 Words and word classes; 2.1 Open and closed word classes
2.2 Nouns and determiners2.2.1 Singular nouns and plural nouns; 2.2.2 Common nouns and proper nouns; 2.2.3 Countable nouns and uncountable nouns; 2.2.4 Genitive nouns; 2.2.5 Dependent genitives and independent genitives; 2.2.6 Determiners; 2.3 Pronouns; 2.3.1 Personal pronouns; 2.3.2 Possessive pronouns; 2.3.3 Reflexive pronouns; 2.3.4 Demonstrative pronouns; 2.3.5 Quantifying pronouns and numerals; 2.3.6 Relative pronouns; 2.3.7 Nominal relative pronouns; 2.3.8 Interrogative pronouns; 2.3.9 Pronoun one; 2.3.10 Pronoun it; 2.4 Main verbs; 2.4.1 The five verb forms; 2.4.2 The base form
2.4.3 The -- s form2.4.4 The past form; 2.4.5 The -- ed/-en form; 2.4.6 The -- ing form; 2.4.7 Irregular verbs; 2.4.8 Regular and irregular variants; 2.4.9 The verb be; 2.4.10 Multi-word verbs; 2.4.11 Light verbs; 2.5 Auxiliary verbs; 2.5.1 Modal auxiliary verbs; 2.5.2 The meanings of modal auxiliaries; 2.5.3 The passive auxiliary be; 2.5.4 The progressive auxiliary be; 2.5.5 The perfective auxiliary have; 2.5.6 Auxiliary do; 2.5.7 Semi-auxiliary verbs; 2.6 Adjectives; 2.6.1 Gradable adjectives; 2.6.2 Comparative adjectives and superlative adjectives; 2.6.3 Participial adjectives
2.6.4 Nominal adjectives2.7 Adverbs; 2.7.1 Circumstantial adverbs; 2.7.2 Degree adverbs; 2.7.3 Comparative adverbs and superlative adverbs; 2.8 Prepositions; 2.9 Conjunctions; Exercises for Chapter 2; Chapter 3 Phrases; 3.1 What is a phrase?; 3.2 The basic structure of phrases; 3.3 Adverb phrases; 3.3.1 The functions of adverb phrases; 3.4 Adjective phrases; 3.4.1 Comparative constructions; 3.4.2 The functions of adjective phrases; 3.5 Prepositional phrases; 3.5.1 The functions of prepositional phrases; 3.6 Noun phrases; 3.6.1 Noun phrase Heads; 3.6.1.1 Identifying the Head
Notes 3.6.2 Determiners and Determinatives
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Subject English language -- Grammar.
English language -- Grammar.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351122764
1351122762