The Grammar Book An ESL/EFL Teacher's Course

by Celce-Murcia, Marianne; Larsen-Freeman, Diane

• ISBN13: 9780838447253
• ISBN10: 0838447252
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-24
• Publisher: Heinle ELT

Summary

In this highly acclaimed revision, grammatical descriptions and teaching suggestions are organized into sections dealing with Form, Meaning, and Use. THE GRAMMAR BOOK, Second Edition helps teachers and future teachers grasp the linguistic system and details of English grammar, providing more information on how structures are used at the discourse level.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgements
To the Course Instructor
Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Grammatical Metalanguage	p. 13
The Lexicon	p. 29
The Copula and Subject-Verb Agreement	p. 53
Introduction to Phrase Structure	p. 79
More Phrase Structure Rules	p. 95
The Tense and Aspect System	p. 109
Modal Auxiliaries and Related Phrasal Forms	p. 137
The Tense-Aspect-Modality System in Discourse	p. 161
Negation	p. 183
Yes/No Questions	p. 205
Imperatives	p. 227
Wh-Questions	p. 241
Other Structures That Look Like Questions	p. 259
Articles	p. 271
Reference and Possession	p. 297
Partitives, Collectives, and Quantifiers	p. 325
The Passive Voice	p. 343
Sentences with Indirect Objects	p. 361
Adjectives	p. 381
Prepositions	p. 401
Phrasal Verbs	p. 425
Nonreferential It and There as Subjects	p. 443
Coordinating Conjunction	p. 461
Adverbials	p. 491
Logical Connectors	p. 519
Conditional Sentences	p. 545
Introduction to Relative Clauses	p. 571
More on Relative Clauses	p. 591
Focus and Emphasis	p. 611
Complementation	p. 629
Other Aspects of Complementation and Embedded Clauses	p. 663
Reported Speech and Writing	p. 687
Degree - Comparatives and Equatives	p. 717
Degree - Complements and Superlatives	p. 739
Conclusion	p. 757
Appendix: Answers to Exercises	p. 761
Index of Names	p. 830
Index of Languages and Language Groups	p. 834
Index of Words and Phrases	p. 835
Index of Topics	p. 844
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