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A Student's Introduction to English Grammar » (1st Edition)
Authors: Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum
ISBN-13: 9780521612883, ISBN-10: 0521612888
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Rodney Huddleston
Rodney Huddleston is a principal author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (ISBN 0521431468) which won the 2004 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award of the Linguistic Society of America.
Geoffrey K. Pullum is a principal author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (ISBN 0521431468) which won the 2004 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award of the Linguistic Society of America.
Book Synopsis
A groundbreaking new textbook on English sentence structure for beginning students in colleges and universities.
Table of Contents
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | A rapid overview | 11 |
| 3 | Verbs, tense, aspect, and mood | 29 |
| 4 | Clause structure, complements, and adjuncts | 63 |
| 5 | Nouns and noun phrases | 82 |
| 6 | Adjectives and adverbs | 112 |
| 7 | Prepositions and preposition phrases | 127 |
| 8 | Negation and related phenomena | 149 |
| 9 | Clause type : asking, exclaiming, and directing | 159 |
| 10 | Subordination and content clauses | 174 |
| 11 | Relative clauses | 183 |
| 12 | Grade and comparison | 195 |
| 13 | Non-finite clauses and clauses without verbs | 204 |
| 14 | Coordination and more | 225 |
| 15 | Information packaging in the clause | 238 |
| 16 | Morphology : words and lexemes | 264 |
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