English Grammar [Paperback]

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 can both understand and apply.

1. Word-classes:  nouns and verbs  2. Noun expansions: heads, dependents and adjectives  3.Linking words: prepositions and coordinators  4.Subclassification: pronouns, determiners and other nouns  5. Verb expansions: subjects, objects, 'sharers' and adverbs 6. Verb chains: auxiliary and full verbs and finiteness  7. Fancy verb chains: to , that, not and clauses 8. Subordinate clause clues 9. Subordinate clause uses 10.Sentence and information: it, there, apposition and punctuationRichard Hudsonis Professor of Linguistics at University College London, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the Language WorkbooksSeries Editor and his publications include Word Meaning(1995) and Teaching Grammar(1992).