The grammar book: an ESL/EFL teacher's course/
Marianne Celce-Murcia, Diane Larsen-Freeman and Howard Williams
- 2nd. ed.
- Sydney: Heinle Cengage Learning, 1999.
- 584 p. ; 26 cm.
To the course instructor -- Introduction -- Grammatical metalanguage -- The lexicon -- The copula and subject-verb agreement -- Introduction to phrase structure -- More phrase structure rules -- The tense and aspect system -- Modal auxiliaries and related phrasal forms -- The tense-aspect-modality system in discourse -- Negation -- Yes/no questions -- Imperatives -- Wh-questions -- Other structures that look like questions -- Articles -- Reference and possession -- Partitives, collectives, and quantifiers -- The passive voice -- Sentences with indirect objects -- Adjectives -- Prepositions -- Phrasal verbs -- Nonreferential it and there as subjects -- Coordinating conjunction -- Adverbials -- Logical connectors -- Conditional sentences -- Introduction to relative clauses -- More on relative clauses -- Focus and emphasis -- Complementation -- Other aspects of complementation and embedded clauses -- Reported speech and writing -- Degree : comparatives and equatives -- Degree : complements and superlatives -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Answers to exercises.
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