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| Introduction | |
| The Study of Grammar: An Overview | |
| English: A World Language | |
| Three Definitions of Grammar | |
| Traditional School Grammar | |
| Modern Linguistics | |
| Structural Grammar | |
| Transformational Grammar | |
| The Issue of Correctness | |
| Language Variety | |
| Language Change | |
| Language in the Classroom | |
| Key Terms | |
| Further Reading | |
| Classroom Applications | |
| Questions for Discussion | |
| The Grammar of Basic Sentences | |
| All chapters in Part II have Key Terms, Sentences for Practice, Questions for Discussion, and Classroom Applications | |
| An Introduction to Words and Phrases | |
| Form Classes | |
| Nouns | |
| The Noun Phrase | |
| Verbs | |
| The Verb Phrase | |
| NP + VP = S | |
| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| Prepositional Phrases | |
| Sentence Patterns | |
| Subjects and Predicates | |
| The Sentence Slots | |
| The BePatterns | |
| The Linking Verb Patterns | |
| The Optional Slots | |
| The Intransitive Verb Pattern | |
| Exceptions to the Intransitive Pattern | |
| Intransitive Phrasal Verbs | |
| The Transitive Verb Patterns | |
| Transitive Phrasal Verbs | |
| The Indirect Object Pattern | |
| The Object Complement Patterns | |
| Compound Structures | |
| Exceptions to the Ten Sentence Patterns | |
| Sentence Types | |
| Interrogative Sentences (Questions) | |
| Imperative Sentences (Commands) | |
| Exclamatory Sentences | |
| Punctuation and the Sentence Patterns | |
| Diagramming the Sentence Patterns | |
| Notes on the Diagrams | |
| The Main Line | |
| The Noun Phrase | |
| The Verb Phrase | |
| The Prepositional Phrase | |
| Compound Structures | |
| Punctuation | |
| Expanding the Main Verb | |
| The Five Verb Forms | |
| Auxiliary-Verb Combinations | |
| The Modal Auxiliaries | |
| The Subjunctive Mood | |
| Tense and Aspect | |
| Using the Verb Forms | |
| The "Future Tense" | |
| Exceptions to the Rule | |
| The Stand-In Auxiliary Do | |
| The Verb System of African American Vernacular English | |
| Changing Sentence Focus | |
| The Passive Voice | |
| The Passive Get | |
| The Transitive-Passive Relationship | |
| Patterns VIII to X in Passive Voice | |
| Changing Passive Voice to Active Voice | |
| The Passive Voice in Prose | |
| Other Passive Purposes | |
| The There Transformation | |
| Cleft Sentences | |
| Expanding the Sentence | |
| All chapters in Part III have Key Terms, Sentences for Practice, Questions for Discussion, and Classroom Applications | |
| Form and Function | |
| Modifiers of the Verb: Adverbials | |
| Adverbs | |
| Prepositional Phrases | |
| Nouns and Noun Phrases | |
| Verb Phrases | |
| Dangling Infinitives | |
| Clauses | |
| Punctuation of Adverbials | |
| Modifers of the Noun: Adjectivals | |
| The Determiner | |
| Adjectives and Nouns | |
| Prenoun participles | |
| Prepositional Phrases | |
| Relative Clauses | |
| Participial Phrases | |
| Passive Participles | |
| The Participle as Object Complement | |
| Movable Participles | |
| Dangling Participles | |
| Participles as Adverbials | |
| Punctuation of Clauses and Participles | |
| Multiple Modifiers | |
| Other Postnoun Modifiers | |
| Infinitives | |
| Noun Phrases | |
| Adjectives | |
| Adverbs | |
| The Noun Phrase Functions: Nominals | |
| The Nominal Slots | |
| Appositives | |
| Punctuation of Appositives | |
| Noun Phrase Substitutes | |
| Gerunds | |
| The Pattern of the Gerund | |
| The Subject of the Gerund | |
| Dangling Gerunds | |
| Infinitives | |
| The Subject of the Infinitive | |
| Nominal Clauses | |
| The Expletive That | |
| Interrogatives | |
| Yes/No Interrogatives | |
| Punctuation of Nominal Clauses | |
| Nominals as Delayed Subjects | |
| Sentence Modifiers | |
| Nouns of Direct Address: The Vocatives | |
| Interjections | |
| Subordinate Clauses | |
| Punctuation of Subordinate Clauses | |
| Elliptical Clauses | |
| Absolute Phrases | |
| Appositives | |
| Relative Clauses | |
| Coordination | |
| Coordination within the Sentence | |
| Punctuation | |
| Elliptical Coordinate Structures | |
| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| Parallel Structure | |
| Coordinating Complete Sentences | |
| Conjunctions | |
| Semicolons | |
| Colons | |
| Diagramming the Compound Sentence | |
| Words and Word Classes | |
| All chapters in Part IV have Key Terms, Questions for Discussion, and Classroom Applications | |
| Morphemes | |
| Bases and Affixes | |
| Bound and Free Morphemes | |
| Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes | |
| Allomorphs | |
| Homonyms | |
| Compound Words | |
| The Form Classes | |
| Nouns | |
| Noun Derivational Suffixes | |
| Noun Inflectional Suffixes | |
| The Meaning of the Possessive Case | |
| Irregular Plural Inflections | |
| Plural-Only Forms | |
| Collective Nouns | |
| Semantic Features of Nouns | |
| Verbs | |
| Verb Derivational Affixes | |
| Verb Inflectional Suffixes | |
| Adjectives | |
| Adjective Derivational Suffixes | |
| Adjective Inflectional Suffixes | |
| Subclasses of Adjectives | |
| Adverbs | |
| Adverb Derivational Suffixes | |
| Adverb Inflectional Suffixes | |
| The Structure Classes | |
| Determiners | |
| The Expanded Determiner | |
| Auxiliaries | |
| Qualifiers | |
| Prepositions | |
| Simple Prepositions | |
| Phrasal Prepositions | |
| Conjunctions | |
| Coordinating Conjunctions | |
| Correlative Conjunctions | |
| Conjunctive Adverbs (Adverbial Conjunctions) | |
| Subordinating Conjunctions | |
| Relatives | |
| Interrogatives | |
| Expletives | |
| There | |
| That | |
| Or | |
| As | |
| If and Whether (or not) | |
| Particles | |
| Pronouns | |
| Personal Pronouns | |
| Case | |
| Gender | |
| Reflexive Pronouns | |
| Intensive Pronouns | |
| Reciprocal Pronouns | |
| Demonstrative Pronouns | |
| Relative Pronouns | |
| Interrogative Pronouns | |
| Indefinite Pronouns | |
| Grammar for Writers | |
| Rhetorical Grammar | |
| Sentence Patterns | |
| Basic Sentences | |
| The Linking Beand Metaphor | |
| Cohesion | |
| Sentence Rhythm | |
| End Focus | |
| Sentence Transformations | |
| Choosing Verbs | |
| The Overuse of Be | |
| The Passive Voice | |
| The Abstract Subject | |
| The Shifting Adverbials | |
| The Adverbial Clause | |
| The Adverbs of Emphasis | |
| The Common Only | |
| Metadiscourse | |
| Style | |
| Word Order Variation | |
| Ellipsis | |
| The Coordinate Series | |
| The Introductory Appositive Series | |
| The Deliberate Sentence Fragment | |
| Repetition | |
| Antithesis | |
| Using Gender Appropriately | |
| Key Terms | |
| Purposeful Punctuation | |
| Making Connections | |
| Compounding Sentences | |
| Compounding Structures within Sentences | |
| Connecting More Than Two Parts: The Series | |
| Separating Prenoun Modifiers | |
| Identifying Essential and Nonessential | |
| Structures | |
| Signaling Sentence Openers | |
| Signaling Emphasis | |
| Using Apostrophes for Contraction and Possessive Case | |
| Glossary of Grammatical Terms | |
| Appendix on Sentence Diagramming | |
| Answers to the Exercises | |
| Index | |
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