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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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