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English Grammar:* helps users to understand grammatical concepts * encourages the reader to practise applying newly discovered concepts to everyday texts* teaches students to analyze almost every word in any English text* provides teachers and students with a firm grounding in a system which they ca...

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Main Author: Hudson, Richard A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780203015469
0203015460
9780415174107
0415174104
0203205227
9780203205228
1280031638
9781280031632
9786610031634
6610031630
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter OVERVIEW
  • chapter 1 WORD-CLASSES: NOUNS AND VERBS
  • chapter 2 NOUN EXPANSIONS: HEADS, DEPENDENTS AND ADJECTIVES
  • chapter 3 LINKING WORDS: PREPOSITIONS AND COORDINATORS
  • chapter 4 SUBCLASSIFICATION: PRONOUNS, DETERMINERS AND OTHER NOUNS
  • chapter 5 VERB EXPANSIONS: SUBJECTS, OBJECTS, 'SHARERS' AND ADVERBS
  • chapter 6 VERB CHAINS: AUXILIARY AND FULL VERBS AND FINITENESS
  • chapter 7 FANCY VERB CHAINS: TO, THAT, NOT AND CLAUSES
  • chapter 8 Subordinate clause clues: wh-pronouns, prepositions and non-infinite verbs (again)
  • chapter 9 SUBORDINATE CLAUSE USES
  • chapter 10 SENTENCES AND INFORMATION: IT, THERE, APPOSITION AND PUNCTUATION.