The Grammar Book An ESL/EFL Teacher's Course
by Celce-Murcia, Marianne; Larsen-Freeman, DianeEdition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-07-24
Publisher(s): Heinle ELT
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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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