Grammar for Teachers: A Guide to American English for Native and Non-Native Speakers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783319339146)

Chapter 1 What Is Grammar?.- 1.1 Section 1: Grammarians and Grammar.- 1.2 Section 2: Language and Change.- 1.3 Section 3: Linguists and Grammar.- Chapter 2 Morphology: Words and Their Parts.- 2.1 Section 1: Word Classes.- 2.2 Section 2: Morphology.- Chapter 3 The Noun Phrase.- 3.1 Section 1: Identifying Nouns.- 3.2 Section 2: Count, Non-Count, and Crossover Nouns.- 3.3 Section 3: Structure Words That Signal Nouns.- 3.4 Section 4: Pronouns.- Chapter 4 Adjectives and Adverbs.- 4.1 Section 1: Adjectives.- 4.2 Section 2: Adverbs.- Chapter 5 Overview of Verbs and Verb Phrases: The Heart of the Sentence.- 5.2 Section 2: Main Verbs Versus Auxiliary Verbs.- 5.3 Section 3: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs.- 5.4 Section 4: Verbs Followed by Gerunds and Infinitives.- 5.5 Section 5: Phrasal Verbs.- Chapter 6 Time, Tense, and Aspect of Verbs.- 6.1 Section 1: Verbs and Inflections - 6.2 Section 2: Present.- 6.3 Section 3: Past.- 6.4 Section 4: Future.- 6.5 Section 5: The Perfect.- Chapter 7 Modal Auxiliary Verbs and Related Structures.- 7.1 Section 1: Meanings and Use.- 7. 2 Section 2: Would and the Conditional.- Chapter 8 Basic Sentence Patterns and Major Variations.- 8.1 Section 1: Types of Sentence Constituents.- 8.2 Section 2: Questions.- 8.3 Section 3: The Passive.- 8.4 Section 4: Substitution.- Chapter 9 Compound Sentences and Introduction to Complex Sentences: Adverbial Clauses.- 9.1 Section 1: Compound Sentences.- 9.2 Section 2: Complex Sentences.- 9.3 Section 3: Reduced Adverbial Clauses.- Chapter 10 Complex Sentences Continued: Relative Clauses.- 10.1 Section 1: Relative Clauses and Relative Pronouns.- 10.2 Section 2: Relative Adverbs.- 10.3 Section 3: Reduced Relative Clauses.- Chapter 11 Complex Sentences Continued: Noun Clauses.- 11.1 Section 1: Noun Clauses.- 11.2 Section 2: Reported Speech.- Chapter 12 Verbal Constructions.- 12.1 Section 1: Gerunds and Gerund Phrases.- 12.2 Section 2: Participles and Participial Phrases.- 12.3 Section 3: Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases.- Glossary.- Appendices.- Appendix A: Some Patterns of Common Irregular Verbs.- Appendix B: The Eight Functions of The Inflectional Morphemes.- Appendix C: Essential Spelling Rules: Inflections.- Appendix D: The Minor Categories: The Structure Words.- Appendix E: Gerunds After Verbs.- Appendix F: Wh-question Words.- Appendix G: Common Adverbial Subordinators.- Appendix H: Summary of Major Learner Difficulties


Author: Andrea Decapua
ISBN-10: 3319339141
ISBN-13: 9783319339146
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 08/08/2016
Pages: 439
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.92d