THE GRAMMAR BOOK FORM MEANING USE FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING 3 ED.
The Grammar Book introduces teachers and future teachers to English grammatical constructions. This highly acclaimed text, used both as a course book and as a grammar reference guide, is suitable for all teachers of English. What sets it apart from other grammar books is its unique pedagogical focus: It describes not only how each grammatical construction is formed, but also its meaning and its use. Grammar is seen to be a resource for making meaning in textually and socially appropriate ways.
Updated explanations of the form, meaning, and use of grammatical constructions, which draw on new research findings, especially from cognitive linguistics for meaning and corpus linguistics for use .
Contrastive information that alerts teachers to possible cross-linguistic influence and helps teachers to identify the learning challenges of their students.
Increased accessibility of the grammatical descriptions to guide teachers to address their students' learning challenges.
New applications in the form of teaching suggestions, exercises, and further readings.
CONTENTS
Dedication iii
Acknowledgments vii
To the Instructor viii
Preface ix
About the Authors xi
Chapters
1 Introduction 1
2 Grammatical Terminology 17
3 Lexicogrammar 33
4 Copular Verbs and Subject-Verb Agreement 57
5 Word Order and the Phrase Structure Rules for the Subject of a Sentence 77
6 More Phrase Structure Rules: The Predicate of a Sentence 89
7 The Tense-Aspect System 105
8 Modal Auxiliaries and Related Phrasal Forms 137
9 The Tense-Aspect-Modality System in Discourse 161
10 Negation 183
11 Yes No Questions 209
12 Imperatives 231
13 Wh-Questions 245
14 Tag, Alternative, Exclamatory, and Rhetorical Questions 267
15 Articles 281
16 Reference and Possession 305
17 Partitives, Collectives, and Quantifiers 331
18 The Passive Voice 351
19 Sentences with Indirect Objects 373
20 Adjectives 393
21 Prepositions 415
22 Phrasal Verbs 441
23 Nonreferential Subjects: Ambient It and Existential There 463
24 Conjunction 481
25 Adverbials 509
26 Logical Connectors 541
27 Conditionals 575
28 Introduction to Relative Clauses 605
29 More on Relative Clauses: Nonrestrictive and Relative Adverb Clauses 631
30 Focus and Emphasis 655
31 Complementation 679
32 Other Aspects of Complementation 707
33 Reported Speech and Writing 731
34 Degree-Comparatives and Equatives 767
35 Degree-Complements and Superlatives 793
36 Conclusion 815
Suggested Answers to Chapter Exercises 819
Indexes
Index of Names 883
Index of Languages and Language Groups 891
Index of Words, Phrases, and Affixes 893
Index of Topics 903
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
