English Grammar: An Introduction
The Book
Exercises
Contents
Unit 1: Basic Concepts
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Word, phrase, sentence
1.3 Grammar
1.4 Literary deviance
Unit 2: Parts of Speech
2.1 Word-classes
2.2 Open and Closed Classes
2.3 Semantics
2.4 More About Nouns
2.5 More About Adjectives
2.6 More About Adverbs
2.7 More About Verbs
2.8 Word-order
2.9 Predominant Parts of Speech
Unit 3: Words and Phrases
3.1 Phrases
3.2 Headwords
3.3 Modifiers
3.4 Types of Phrases
3.5 Adverbs and Prepositions
3.6 Participles
3.7 Adjectives and Nouns
Unit 4: Word Formation
4.1 What is a Word?
4.2 Morphology
4.3 Affixes
4.4 Compounds
Unit 5: Function Labels
5.1 Form and Function
5.2 Position
5.3 SPOCA
5.4 Sentence and Clause
5.5 Function and Order
5.6 Slots and Filters
5.7 Object and Complement
5.8 Adverbials
5.9 Clause Patterns
5.10 Ambiguity
5.11 Modifiers, Complements and Adverbials
Unit 6: Mainly About Verbs
6.1 Linguistic systems
6.2 The verb phrase
6.3 Verb systems
6.4 Auxiliary "do"
6.5 Stylistic Factors
Unit 7: The Structure of Sentences
7.1 Prose style
7.2 Clauses and sentences
7.3 Closed class words
7.4 Technical problems
7.5 Phrasal and prepositional verbs
7.6 Cohesion
Unit 8: More About Phrases
8.1 Subordination
8.2 Clauses
8.3 Words and phrases
8.4 Apposition
8.5 Genitive phrases
8.6 Tree diagrams
Unit 9: More About Clauses
9.1 Subordinate clauses
9.2 Adverbial clauses
9.3 Noun clauses
9.4 Direct subordination
9.5 Indirect subordination
9.6 Relative clauses
9.7 Comparative clauses
9.8 Prepositional clauses
