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Preface | |
Introduction | |
What Is Grammar? Grammar versus Usage | |
Descriptive Grammars | |
Grammatical Prototypes | |
Learning about Grammar | |
Aids to Learning about Language | |
Suggestions for Reading This Book | |
Varieties of English | |
Regional Dialects | |
Social Dialects | |
Standard American English | |
Styles | |
Second Language Acquisition | |
English in an International Context | |
The Morphology of English | |
Morphemes | |
Inflectional Morphemes | |
Functional Shift | |
Derivational Morphemes | |
Form Classes and Structure Classes | |
Form-Class Words | |
Form and Function | |
Nouns | |
Subclasses and Features | |
Verbs | |
Adjectives | |
Adverbs | |
Analyzing Form and Function | |
Structure-Class Words | |
Structure-Class versus Form-Class Words | |
Determiners | |
Auxiliaries | |
Qualifiers | |
Prepositions | |
Pronouns | |
Conjunctions | |
Relatives | |
Interrogatives | |
Phrases | |
Subjects and Predicates | |
Form and Function | |
Recognizing Phrase Types | |
The Main Verb Phrase | |
Five Basic Sentence Types | |
Binary Structure | |
Type I The Intransitive Type | |
Types II, III, and IV Linking (Copular) Types | |
Type V The Transitive Type | |
Basic Sentence Transformations | |
The Indirect Object Transformation | |
The Passive Transformation | |
Other Transformations | |
Negative Sentences | |
Interrogative Sentences | |
Imperative Sentences | |
Finite Verb Clauses, Part I: Adverbial and Adjectival Clauses | |
Sentence Varieties | |
Subordinate Clauses | |
Relative Clauses | |
Finite Verb Clauses, Part II: Nominal Clauses | |
That Clauses | |
Interrogative Clauses | |
Rhetorical Problems in Using Dependent Clauses | |
Nonfinite Verb Phrases, Part I: Infinitive Phrases | |
Infinitive Phrases | |
Functions of Infinitive Phrases | |
Differences between Infinitives and Prepositional Phrases | |
Peripheral Cases Ought To | |
Nonfinite Verb Phrases, Part II: Participle and Gerund Phrases | |
Present-Participle Phrases | |
Gerunds | |
Past-Participle Phrases | |
Nominative Absolutes | |
Stylistic Transformations and Sentence Analysis | |
Transitive Phrasal Verbs and the Particle Movement Transformation | |
The There Transformation | |
The Cleft Sentence Transformations | |
Appendix: The Sounds of American English | |
Consonants of English | |
Allophones | |
Vowels of English | |
American Pronunciation | |
Pronunciation and Spelling | |
Sound Changes | |
Glossary | |
Index | |
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